Through the Wilderness

Through the Wilderness

This road on which I travel
through the dark wilderness
of uncertainty and change
leaves me to feel unsettled,
adrift without purpose
or direction,
strongly lacking motivation
which hinders any progress
I would make.
I’m caught in that indeterminate place
between who I was
and who I’m going to be
and there’s no GPS
to assuage my impatience
or anxiety.
There’s no blue line for me to follow
to wherever I will be
and already I’ve rerouted
on this ambiguous path
circling round a few times
hoping the next turn will set me free.
But even in this unknown wilderness,
though I may not know
which way to go,
I am never truly lost
for I am with my Shepherd
who leads and shelters me.
If I listen for his quiet voice
calling out the way
and step in the places his feet have been
I cannot go astray.
And though the light
of his holiness and grace
reveals only my next step
I trust in him who’s led me here
to lead me all the way.