When wandering there will be moments that are upsetting or discombobulating. You will wonder if you should turn back. Take a different path. Run the other direction. It is in that moment of wandering that you realize you need to slow down. It is time to stop, no steps back, no running, just sit down for a bit. PAUSE.

Whatever horrors or beauties your life has seen to bring you to the point of wandering, you have no need to go back. You are most likely right where you need to be. Always remember that everything happens for a reason, especially when wandering. Wanderers are trusting God, their environment, their support system to help guide them to things that are meant to happen for them.

I love Robert Frost, he wrote a poem that you are certainly familiar with. The Road Not Taken… I won’t quote it to you here. Many people are familiar with the beginning and the ending. The middle is where the wanderer stands, looks at both avenues and has to make a decision. So if you are wandering, which road do you take? The commonly tread path or the overgrown forgotten path? There is no wrong answer, because everything happens for a reason.

Robert Frost indicates that because of how life occurs there is no going back and taking the other path. So when you decide your path, you cannot turn back and take a different direction, you can merely branch at the next fork. You most certainly can sit at that fork and take a pause before making a decision.

I am on the precipice overlooking a deep decent into something that others do not understand. The words of concern, worry, stress, and fear that my loved ones have shared with me make me want to turn back. Make me want to not take the road less traveled, make me not want to leap. In my heart of hearts, my wild woman dances and exclaims in joy at what I am doing. So when it comes down to it, I love my support group, but I am taking the road less traveled and I know it is perfectly fine because everything happens for a reason.

I am a wanderer, because I don’t understand the reasons, but life is happening and I am learning to pause instead of react, and it has made all the difference.

Signing off from Marion, IA.