Lost & Found

I remember that day so clearly. I was driving home, down a winding road in the country, and just "thinking", there has to be more! There has to be more than religion, and all that I was taught in Sunday School. I had been going to church my whole life, searching for happiness, and here I was once again, not happy, not fulfilled, very confused, but lucid enough to know....there has to be more! Little did I know that in that very moment of lucidity, I called into my life...more! Just by thinking and then stating, "There has to be more", I was essentially asking for more. More of what? Well, in that moment, for me, I was asking for more of the truth, the rest of the story. I knew something was missing and I guess I was asking God for that missing link or puzzle piece. You know that verse in the Bible, "The truth shall set you free?" I was asking for freedom! Freedom from fear, freedom from guilt, freedom from condemnation, and a whole host of other rules and regulations I had been tethered to, by religion, my whole life. I just so desperately wanted to feel good! I was so tired of feeling bad about myself and everything around me. I just couldn't do it anymore! If their way, the religious sect way, was the "right" way, then something had gone terribly wrong. All my life I felt like I didn't belong when I attended church. Of course, their answer to this dilemna would be that there was something wrong with me. I always felt like I was swimming against the current in the great river of life. Always trying to be something I was not! And now I know, that is precisely what was happening! I was trying to "be"" instead of just "being". I'll get into that, the state of being, a little later on. But, to sum things up for now, who I was meant to be, the whole reason my soul took this journey, was because my soul was desperately fighting to get on the path I needed to be on. That's why I never fit in! Bingo! Our soul tells us in so many languages where to go, but we simply do not listen. Or, we never get quiet enough to hear it's oh so gentle voice. There is a verse in the Bible that says, "But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out." The problem is, the sheep cannot hear the shepherd, for all the bleating they do! Most often, we are too busy, or too loud, to hear our own hearts desire! The one thing that would bring you true happiness is living the life you were intended to live, before you were ever born. You were predestined for greatness! "Before you were formed in your mother's womb I knew you." (Jeremiah 1:5) There is an AWESOME plan for your life and mine, but somewhere, somehow, we got off course. Which brings me back to the day I was driving down that winding road and essentially prayed, through my thinking and words, for MORE! "Ask and ye shall receive." And so I did, without even knowing it, I brought into my life the truth. The rest of the story. "Seek and ye shall find." I came to the end of that winding road and so began my journey. This book is about that journey. Come with me..... I have a wonderful story to tell you.