I Walk In His Garden

When I was a child, I expected lots of toys left by Santa Clause on Christmas Eve. And planned to find an Easter Basket with candy and colored eggs every spring. The Tooth Fairy visited when I lost baby teeth; all of those things I did believe. I had no idea fantasia spread around by people to whom my love did cling. When I was a teen, I began to dream a scene, eagerly awaiting my adult vista. A boy and a girl in love, each firmly trusting the future with hopes and naivety, Anticipating passion while cutting paper hearts decorated pink and fuchsia. Aspiring to have a good husband, lots of money, education and a family. When I became an adult, I struggled to find myself, my faith, my own viewpoint. Possibilities were endless, chance and fate stepped up to life’s plate. Decisions, sometimes blind and difficult, intruded; life had no checkpoint. Gradually, childhood plans mutated; soon, prospects and dreams abated. In time, I found that in the process of aging, possibilities are still endless. Life and dreams function, not by probability, but by goals and decisions. Achievement came at last, by finding focus and goodly principles; God is ageless. My inner soul rejoices in freedom, with burdens lifted, I pray...in His garden. © January 30, 2011 Dane Smith-Johnsen