Walking the Labyrinth, February22, 2020

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I need to release and let go of my fear for the future, my health & Scott's health, worry what might happen if I can't get my intestines under control. How do I find peace with this stage of my health & in my life? What path do You want me to walk, Lord? How do I balance intestinal issues and things I want to do outside the home? I need to let go of the assumption that I can't do things. I need to let go of the expectations that others have placed on me that I can do everything all the time. I need to be open to the possibilities God shows me and the limitations He puts on me, not the ones I put on myself.
We are all walking the same path, but in different ways. We all encounter our own challenges, but we are all here walking together. I am not the only one walking this path, even though I’m the only one on this part of it right now. God is with me; He is with each of us at the same time. I can do this. One step at a time. This part, then the next. Trust the path. I’m on the path; I know where it leads, but I don’t have to know how it gets there. All I need to do is look two steps forward. Many of those around me are also going through tough times. They have health problems, too. Some are dealing with things I have no clue about, yet they are here. We all need this right now, in different ways. It’s ok to just “be.” So this is what a labyrinth walk is! I’m glad it’s not too crowded, or I would feel like I was holding up traffic. Are others worrying about my walking stick or me getting too close to them on their part of the path? I can “feel” everyone; this is weird being able to do so but not talking. The soft music helps. Maybe this would help me to do every week in some form. On the finger labyrinth, I got to the center too quickly, then back out too quickly. Getting motion-sick on the finger one with my eyes shut but not on the walking one. We are all taking our own time. I don’t need to worry; I just need to trust the part of the path I can see. It may be a step or it may be 20 steps. There is one path, one way to go to walk this. How can I do this at home? God will provide the way. Different journeys on one path.
I was halfway through with my journaling on this when I realized I'd skipped part of the circuit and gone straight to the almost-middle of the labyrinth before starting to wind around! That's ok, though. We were all each stepping off the path in front of us to let others by, because there was only room enough for one person to walk in a given section at a time, and it was a two-way path. We would step into one of the other sections to let someone go by, or others would for us, then step back on where we had been and continue.
The branch is showing through the section of labyrinth I unintentionally skipped over. The lines are used as a mask for a blendable from last month’s Bricolage and blended into the background. The flower is in the girl’s hand, showing through between her left shoulder and her hair. The word art is the start of the journaling on the labyrinth. I used the Bricolage challenge elements and word art given in the Digital Scrapbooking Studio forums, additional word art from the Bricolage collection for this month (blended into the top right of the layout), a frame from “Hello Mother,” a paper from “Independence,” a public domain version of the Chartres labyrinth, 3 elements from last month’s Bricolage collection, and a paper from “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” all by Jen Maddocks.