MY POINTS OF VIEW - 2

 Hello Travelers!  Welcome back to the journey.  I am a mother of six; a grandmother of seventeen and a great grandmother of three.  One of my children and two of my great grandchildren are with the Lord.  And all of these events have happened along my recent journey.  I just want to let you know that God is still holding me in the midst of this walk, and I will tell you more when my story begins.  

In the meantime, point three.

3. Even in a crowd of loved ones or kindhearted friends or great social events, loneliness will pop into your moments.  What will trigger that?  Well, let's just look at this scenario.  You're having a great time at a social event and your eye falls upon a couple in the distance...doing things that you and your late spouse once did or had planned to do.  They don't know that their happy time is a remembered trigger for you.  They are just enjoying their moment as they should without any idea that your world has just been shaken a bit.  You smile at the memory that you once experienced and you Will yourself to move on.  

I have often wondered how many times that I was just living life not realizing that someone else in the room was having a triggered moment by my life movements.  I didn't realize it at the time.  Why would I?  I may or may not have realized that someone else was in a loneliness space that I was enjoying with an opposite result.  We travelers must understand and hold on to the fact that life goes on.  A cliche' but a true statement.  People can't and won't put their lives on hold until we catch up.  Why should they?  Life has a way of bringing experiences to the forefront of our existences.   We'll talk more about this later.

And whether someone is doing something deliberately to affect us or they're just living their lives, we travelers have to move past the moment and find our strength in our Father Who is our constant traveling companion.  He will breathe the breath of compassion and healing into our moments and help us to move gently to the next moment in our lives.  

Oh, did I not share with you that this journey is a moment-to-moment thing.  I'm so sorry but yes, it is.  Some moments are absolutely gleeful, and some moments take you to a place of overwhelming blank time spots.  That's how I identify them.  It's like a brief blackout in time.  Loneliness pops in and pops out.  It would be unthinkable to imagine if you weren't actually living it.  Are you waiting for me to tell you when this will end?  Well, I lost my mother fifty-four years ago and I'm still traveling.  So no, I'm sorry the blank time spots pop up as they will but the journey through Christ makes the travel bearable. 

This is my mother.  The journey is on-going...