Who would agree it’s important to be able to feel love and give love to others in this crazy, mixed up world? I believe wholeheartedly it’s acceptable to say “I love you” to anyone I meet. What’s more important though, for me, is to put it into perspective … and I have.

We all have different journeys in life unique to who God created us to be and the path with which we take along that journey is equally as unique and important. Do you find it interesting the paths we choose to travel? Sometimes we move along a beautiful country road with lovely trees and flowers awestruck at the wonder of God. Other times we are stuck in the worst “traffic jams”amidst much confusion  and chaos of beeping horns and toxic exhaust so to speak. Sometimes we hit speed bumps going way too fast in the hustle and bustle of our busy lives. And how about those wrecks we’ve survived … some barely? In my case, three nearly deadly. More often than not we are going down a lonely dark road at night wondering how to make sense of it all. Well, such is life.

As I have traversed my paths, I have felt everything from incredible joy, to deep despair, to insurmountable frustration. And what I recently realized is the biggest road block and obstacle in my way has been … myself.

Those innocent bystanders along the way I’ve either injured because my “car” veered off course … those near misses I’ve had are always out of my own ignorance of just not knowing how to drive my car (my life). So many times I’ve been walking barefoot, so to speak, stumbling along, lost, broken and wondering if anyone picks up hitchhikers in this unsafe world anymore. Most days I feel like the hitchhiker.

Sometimes I feel completely confident and understand why I was put on this earth. But then there are also days, I feel confused as heck. I am a wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, lover of God, jokester/goofball, kooky, quirky, silly, silly woman trying to relate to my world through others … asking God to work through me in some fashion that I might leave you with a smile … hence, Sharon A Smile. All the while I am praying that should you smile, it brings more happiness to HIM .. not me.

I hope my journey ahead is still a long one for I have many wrongs still to right (and write!). I pray for wisdom to know the correct words to choose in an effort to correct those wrongs. I pray my words will heal, not hurt. I am a work in progress, but I am stubborn, and I am stronger than I realize, and I am confident I will get where I am going and have the courage when the time comes, to give up and give in at the end of my road (journey) … when God calls me to my final resting place to abide completely and fully in HIS house. But for now … one day at a time. Let your life shine, dear friends, as you drive your car down that country road or busy, crowded highway. Just take a little time along the way and remember you aren’t driving that car or walking that road alone. Enjoy the scenery, traverse your path slowly and with care. Turn on your headlights and let you LIGHT shine!