When You Feel Lost

Life has changed quite a bit recently, and it can leave us feeling a bit lost. Here’s how to take the first steps to being found.

Admit things are different

I’ve been in a strange place. An unknowing place. Ironically, I originally typed unknown instead of unknowing…I don’t think that’s an accident.

Because the truth is I feel a bit lost. I don’t feel tethered to anything. Even on the windiest of days or the middle of a storm, a well tethered sail holds fast. I feel like I’m floating in the sky wondering when or if I’ll ever land.

I know, I’m great at making simple things sound dramatic. But it’s how they play out in my head. Isn’t that the way? And my ever spinning mind only blows air into the wind tossing me around.

More than circumstances

This has to do with more than my circumstances.

When I think about my purpose it all sounds so prescribed, a checklist of sorts.

Daughter of God, Wife, Mother, etc. All good things that I wouldn’t trade. But there’s this other part of me inside that longs for something I can’t quite put my finger on.

Can you relate?

Grab hold of truth

Maybe you know what it is you’re called to, but you aren’t sure what that looks like. Maybe you just feel trapped by circumstances and don’t know how to move forward or which way to turn.

The struggle is real and we flail in the breeze it’s easy to lose hope. And if we don’t have hope, I can’t even think of how joy will come into the picture.

I was about to tie this in a neat bow with some analogy of calling out to God and Him grasping hold of us running wild in the wind. But then I couldn’t.

Because it feels hard. Yes, I believe when we call He will come. Always. I know it deep in my heart and my head. But sometimes we don’t feel it.

Especially when we lose our anchor.

Maybe the first step toward finding my way back is admitting how untethered I feel. Maybe it’s not in saying the right words or knowing how to fix it, but in recognizing the place I’m in. Maybe it’s about telling God how unknown I feel.

If you’re looking for more thoughts on dealing with the wild in the wind, feeling unknown, check out No More Faking Fine and The Broken Way. Sometimes we need permission to feel. Fleece and Voskamp understand and lead you closer to the cross, the only place we are meant to be tethered.