Once upon a time....

I decided to follow a different path through...

During my normal daily walk through the woods on my way to work, I came across this terrible smell.

I decided to investigate this awful smell, and followed it to a cave,  there were many very big old oak trees masking it's entrance.

As I walked in I felt scared, it was very dark and scary, as my eyes adjusted to the lack of light I walked further into the cave.

As I continue inwards taking different turns and choosing different paths time and again, I was all of a sudden shocked to realized that I had walked much to far into this cave and now I had no idea how to find my way out.

Somehow... I felt safe, and kept walking, only to keep stepping into wet mucky watery puddles over and over in that darkness, sometimes falling chest deep, and although I was terribly scared, I was absolutely certain that somehow God was with me protecting me, and that gave me an overall feeling of safety and well being.

It only took, what seemed to me at the time, a few hours to find my way out of that dark, scary wet cave?

When I walked back home to my family, they exclaimed their happiness to see me, and how they had searched and searched, and had just about given up on me , as I had disappeared for many days from their point of view, even the sheriff and the search parties had given up.

After all the hugs from my wife and family, I was told to wash and as I sat in my recliner and my wife looked at me closely, with that gentle caring smile she possesses so naturally and asked me why I looked so healthy, as I had been lost for 13 days.

I explained how I had just kept walking, and felt as though God was walking with me, as I stepped through endless puddles of muck in that darkness. I explained how I had found a rock ledge to rest on and fell asleep, for what seemed... only a few minutes.

Then not long after starting to walk along once again in that endless muck, I saw the light and followed it out of the cave.  I never again found myself, lost in that cave.

Since that day our family has been quite blessed with all the good things in this life, all the happiness and prosperity we could ever want or need. We now do as we think God would want us to do.

We donate regularly to our churches and charities at every chance, for to give to others is such a wonderful thing to do.

I think God blessed me in that cave, and as a result my community as well.

Thanks God, for your blessing, and bringing me out of the darkness.