Daryl Wood's Blog

This morning I heard a woman say “We are never lost. There is always a gift wherever we are.”

I love that. I love that it reminds me to be present to whatever and wherever I am today. That somewhere in the midst of my not knowing or feeling confused or indeed, lost, there is something of value. Somehow I have landed here, in this place to see or feel or experience something that would not have been available to me if I was somewhere else.

Our language matters and what we say to ourselves is so important. I’ve heard myself say internally and externally that I am lost without Doug. Of course I am lost in the sense that I don’t have him here in physical form in the ways I so long for. Sometimes I feel that he is lost and I hope he finds his way home to me. And yet in feeling lost I have also arrived somewhere I didn’t expect. I would not have ever thought that living alone was nourishing and I could not have known that without losing him. I assumed that living with him was the only way I could survive. Apparently not. But how else would I have known.

How else would I have discovered the hidden gems of Nova Scotia without veering off on a sideroad looking for something and finding myself standing on a cliff overlooking the great Atlantic Ocean. Thank goodness for getting lost.

Thank goodness for not knowing what career path to follow only to find myself building something born out of creativity and enthusiasm. When I felt so lost and unsure I witnessed the power of time and space allowing opportunities where none had ever been.

Update: As I reflect on what I wrote I sense that we think we are lost because we are not where we expected to be, haven’t got to where we intended to go. And maybe that was the whole point after all. We were never supposed to be ‘there’. There is some reason we ended up somewhere else. How else could we learn about ourselves and how we react and handle things? How else might we discover new places inside and out that bring us wisdom and even perhaps joy?

So I wonder if you are feeling lost. And what gifts are there in the lostness of your life right now? If we are never really lost, we can be here now.