To the One Feeling LOST

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You can’t ever get lost….

Not really.   You can lose your way on a road or in a foreign city.  You can get turned around trying to follow GPS to a new destination.  

But you can’t ever truly get lost. 

There is a part of you that always knows.  There is a part of you that is unbreakable and unchanging.  There is a part of you that is always at home no matter where you’ve taken your body.  And so, if you are at all in touch with that unchanging, abiding, unbreakable part of yourself… you cannot be lost.

Change comes and sometimes that unchanging part is hard to touch.  

You say: “I feel lost”  “I’ve lost myself”  “I’ve lost my way”  

To your small frightened mind it does feel that way.  That’s because something has changed and been lost.  Not YOU.  You aren’t lost - not the most essential part of you.  But something - some piece of your identity has vanished.  Some part of your ego has been unceremoniously shoved out.  And it feels like YOU are lost.

But you are not.  Your Essence is still here - not broken, not lost, not dulled in anyway.

It never leaves, but sometimes it gets covered.  It feels like it’s gone.  Buried deep under life’s debris. Harsh words, harsher thoughts, confusion, and yes, traumas - all of them shovel more over your Essence.  So much that sometimes you lose touch with YOU.  

It does feel like you’re lost.  Because you HAVE lost something - not you, you’re never lost remember - but you’ve lost the golden thread of connection that weaves from the surface to the deep and back again.  That single line links the you that is always changing to the YOU that never does. That’s what may have been lost as the weight of the world was piled on your shoulders.

It can be found again, the golden thread.  It hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s only been dropped somewhere along the path.  It’s waiting for you to come find it.  

If we’re being honest, you may need to get a shovel.   A good strong one.  And a strong stomach because what you’re digging through to find that thread?…. it’s ripe.  And nobody wants to dig through it.

But dig you must if you want to see that shimmer of gold again.  So, you will.  You won’t be content until you do.  And once you find it, don’t let go. Follow that thread down whatever winding path it leads you.  

Eventually you’ll remember again that you aren’t lost.  You never were.  

After years of following and listening, touching to the unchanging and coming back to the surface, when you’ve dug down deep enough you’ll discover your Essence nature: the Being.  The unchanging. The unbreakable.  The never diminished, Being.

The Being is made of Love.  Love can never be lost.  

So if you’re feeling lost on this day, go looking for a tiny golden thread of connection to something deeper than the surface. Get brave, and follow it all the way into the center of your Heart. That’s where Love is waiting to greet you.