More to Life

Sitting with hubby the other day he said there was something I hadn't said in a long time. I asked what that was and he said that I hadn't said "There's got to be more to life". And I said, yep you're right because I found out this year that there definitely is more to life.

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It was a long dim corridor

Familiar

I'd walked this long straight hall so many times

Slowly

Sometimes I'd turn around and go back

Stand still

Or sit down under a burned out light-looking down the darkened corridor

Endless

Was this all there was?

Despair

There had to be more to life? There just had to be.

Defiance

And I stood up with head lowered and walked the long dim corridor

Yet Again

Until I saw a tiny dot of light, at a side wall way down near the floor

Fearful

And I poked my pinky in until the hole widened and the light shone into the darkness

Incredulous

I peeked through this opening of light

And there, running parallel and perpendicular to my corridor, was a whole network of paths

Leading in all directions

Running across others' paths

With curves and hills and...

Light

My spirit had tried to tell me there was more to life

But I had refused to believe

So they sent a tiny dot to get my attention and asked me to...

Trust

South Dakota 2006