man wandering in woods

Lost in the woods

I did not know it would be so dark here. As always I was merely walking the path I usually walked. My conviction guided me and caution was my guard. Still I did not know when we entered the strange woods. Its trees were tall and majestic, their shades welcoming. Its calming beauty caused us to halt and admire the quiet tranquility. Yet,
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I could not tell when it began; but when the winds of fortune began to whisper softly through the trees, the leaves rustled as though dancing with the wind and we heard a quiet melody of kindness and compassion. Its soothing coolness recalled to me the warmth of another life. It was a life whose ashes marked the beginning of our journey on this path. Memories flooded my soul as happiness of those old days began to mingle with an unquenchable sadness I did not know I still felt. The soft rustling of leaves soon became a gentle voice whose liquid warmth poured directly into my heart and caused my  caution to finally recognize the truth of our weariness. It reluctantly agreed to sleep
in the shade of the voice whose purity had melted away our weariness and had woven our memories into a tapestry of an unforgettable beauty. I did not know that the deep slumber of my caution would allow me to believe the many things I heard from behind the tapestry. The gentle voice had broken into countless songs of faith and friendship, love and loyalty. Every song told a tale of trust and devotion, empathy and dedication. So exquisite was the reality it conjured with my affection that I nearly forgot about my conviction.

I had never known it to be afraid of anything unless it be He Whose authority knows no bounds and Who has dominion over all things. And yet, I heard a note of fear in it’s ever commanding tone. “You have abandoned your caution. Do not betray me too. Let us be on our path.” Before it could continue with its appeal, I ran forward towards the voice, wanting to beseech its wonders to come with me and be the healer of my weariness, a companion for my forlorn journey. When I thought I was nearing it, the melodies changed and I heard a lament of pain whose anguish and sorrow stopped me in my tracks and caused me to battle with an unknown agony of an expected loss. I did not know that I had known all along that the voice was a respite in my journey and not to be with me as my caution and conviction. I did not know I could weep with tears to beg for something other than His love. I did not know for how long I wept in the dark even after the voice had faded away and was only echoing in my heart. I did not know that eventually my anguish would make me weep tears of blood before I would realize that I was lost.

I called for my caution to return and guard me as before. I screamed for my conviction to be my guide again… but all was in vain. I can hear them from time to time now, calling for me, wanting me to return to the path. I follow the sounds of their calls but when I think I am near enough to find them, I look back for the gentle voice as though cursed by the joy it brought to me. When I turn back to follow my caution and my conviction, they vanish.

I did not know the emptiness of a doubt infested heart. I did not know that my world would crash into nothingness without my caution’s guard to protect me. I have tried in vain to run far and wide in these woods from its chaotic calm and from the lonely solitude of its darkened shades. This time I find myself in a grove whose every tree has started haunting me with a face of a marble beauty, its visage is etched upon the eerily smooth trunks of the trees all around me. It is a face I thought I would see, if the gentle voice whose melody moved me to my madness would come with me. Every countenance has a different expression. Some are lifeless with love and friendship, trust and devotion while others are strangely alive with guilt and grief, fear and frustration, and others still have the blank expressions of faith and conviction, prudence and caution.

The darkness has thickened and I now grope to find my way back to the path I unknowingly forsook. Every time I near a place I believe to be a way out, I am entangled in the roots of a tree whose face would send me reeling back in fear. My strength is now failing me as fear and confusion shroud my soul in an icy blackness. anguish erupts in a
noiseless explosion with every thud of my uncertain heart. I Truly Am Lost My MASTER!

Oh My master I no longer have my conviction to accompany me. I no longer have my caution to protect me from imprudence. I am all alone in this darkness which is too black to be borne alone. I’m too cold with apprehension to survive the growing chill of these empty woods. Please hear my plea and return to me the warmth of my faith, take the stifling fear away from me, return to me the certainty of my conviction with humility as my remedy from your all healing compassion. Please! Let me be free from this darkness! Please let me be released from the curses of my own folly! Let me be on the path out of these beguiling woods and their illusory beauty! Please! Please, please! No one can hear my screams but You. Nobody can understand my suffering accept You. Please be my guide and my friend, my might and my strength. Show me the way, show me the way, show me the way! Amin.

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