Inspired by lyrics to “I Am Not Lost, I’m Exploring” by Jana Stanfield:“I walked a mile with sorrow, I walked a mile with joy,
And now I’m less afraid of either one.”
“I’m not lost, I am exploring. Life is an adventure worth enjoying.
Though I may not know where I’m going, I am not lost, I am exploring.”
“Some like me are seekers, we take less traveled roads,
Believing we can find a better way.
And though I may get discouraged, I won’t be turning back
I have joy as my compass and faith as my map.”
“All of us are headed for the same destination,
So why not blaze a trail that’s got imagination?
I’m not lost, I am exploring. Life is an adventure worth enjoying.
Though I may not know where I’m going, I am not lost, I am exploring.”
Responsive Reading for June 23
“Where can I hide from your spirit? From your presence, where can I flee? If I ascend to the heavens, you are there; if I lie down in Sheol, you are there too. If I fly with the wings of dawn and alight beyond the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand hold me fast” (Psalm 139: 7-10).
“If I could look down on this path I walk from somewhere way up high,
I could see the crooked road that I have come.
I walked a mile with sorrow, I walked a mile with joy
And now I’m less afraid of either one.”
“Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you” (Deut. 31:6)
“For every tear I’ve cried, there’s a smile that I have earned,
For every mile I walked there’s a lesson I learned.
I’m not lost, I am exploring. Life is an adventure worth enjoying.
Though I may not know where I’m going, I am not lost, I am exploring.”
“What man among you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them would not leave the ninety-nine in the desert and go after the lost one until he finds it? And when he does find it, he sets it on his shoulders with great joy and, upon his arrival home, he calls together his friends and neighbors and says to them, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep’” (Lk. 15:4-6).
Some like me are seekers, we take less traveled roads,
Believing we can find a better way.
And though I may get discouraged, I won’t be turning back
I have joy as my compass and faith as my map.
“People might seek God, even perhaps grope for him and find him, though indeed he is not far from any one of us. For ‘in him we live and move and have our being’” (Acts 17:27, 28).*
“All of us are headed for the same destination,
So why not blaze a trail that’s got imagination?
I’m not lost, I am exploring. Life is an adventure worth enjoying.
Though I may not know where I’m going, I am not lost, I am exploring.”