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Lost And Found by Rhonda Lane
I
have no sense of direction. None. I point, I position,
My first remembrance of Father’s Day was of being
and I ponder trying to figure out the difference between
driven through the outer bands of Hurricane Agnes in 1972
North and South and East and West to no avail. I do have
on my way to Disney World. I was subsequently delivered
a sense of gravity, however, so at least I can tell up from
safely to the doors of a Mickey Mouse kingdom by the
down.
mercy of the Creator of a Heavenly Kingdom through the
My father was the complete opposite. A former telephone company lineman with an inborn sense of
hands of my prince on earth, my father. In the ways of the world and in reading people, he
direction who had traveled thousands of miles of city streets
was my own personal North Star. When life knocked me
and country roads for his job, his recipe for navigation was
off my path, or someone pushed me off, he was there to set me back in the right direction again, referencing the map he had gained from the school of hard knocks. No matter where we are in life, with or without an unfoldable map, we can count on GPS. I don’t mean the Global Positioning System: I mean God’s Positioning System. He is, after all, the One who drew the map of the universe. He is the One who wrote the directions to His own heart through His Holy Word. He knows where we are in life at any moment. He knows where our mind is even when it wanders. He knows where our heart is even when it moves far away from him.
simply to “follow your nose” with possibly the addition of
When we come to a crossroads and don’t know which
a free filling station map for long trips. (Once unfolded, that
way to go, God does. When our enemy pushes us off our
map could never be refolded properly again.) He was our
path, God can set us back on the right path. When we
family’s own personal OnStar. He never led us astray.
can’t fold our map back to the way it should be, God can.
Our shared mileage was accompanied by stories and
When God drives our lives, we never end up at the wrong
tales of his experiences in all the little nooks and crannies
destination. It will never be a Mickey Mouse kingdom but a
and wide places in the roads of Whitfield County and
Heavenly one.
Murray County, especially the beloved Murray County of his youth. I listened to his stories with interest and
Let God be your North Star. He will never lead you astray. With Him, you will always know up from down.
every letter of every word, every dot of every letter I and every cross of a letter T.
20 // June 2020
About The Author
reflection, but how I wish I had memorized every word, Rhonda Lane is a native of Dalton, Georgia, and is an orphaned, old maid, and only child trying to find her way in the world and lose herself in Jesus Christ.
