Have you traveled across seas of suffering or walked barefoot through the scorching sands of deserts of despair to get here? Did you journey through forests of fear and frustration, or alleys of anxiety, angst and anger along your way? Have you ever felt the wild winds of strong emotions blow? Have you climbed mountains of expectations or gotten lost in caves of isolation?

 

Do you know where home is? Did rough roads of relationships bring you here today? Have you gone through grief or gotten lost? Do you know and remember who you are? Are you feeling alone or hunted by unfriendly taunting thoughts and fierce foes? Are you still trembling from trauma? Do you know where you are? Do you know where you want to be? Are the rapids of time rushing by too quickly? Are they forcibly carrying you forward in a current of complexities? Do you want out?

 

Have you risen above and dove deep below? Are you searching, growing, discovering, thriving, and desiring more? Do you see your beauty in all the splendor that God radiated you to be? Do you trust? Do you want to bloom your brightest to bring back to him eternally?