Travels through Life by Millie Jackson

WINGS

We all need wings in life to grow. If you tie our wings we will never learn to fly and have the freedom to learn from our mistakes. Even a bird has to learn to fly and sometimes he falls. We don't come here knowing about life, it is taught to us. We all learn in different ways and about different things in life.

Life has many detours and roadblocks. We each have to find our own path. The road is not always straight and narrow. We think at times we have found the right road and then we run into a roadblock or detour. Then we find we have to go another way. We need courage to keep us going straight at this time in our lives. Sometimes the road gets pretty rocky and steep but we have to keep pushing ahead.

The struggle and hurt can at times be hard to deal with especially when we feel it is others' fault, but we should learn that nothing is certain in life, not even roads or wings. Something could happen that would change things in a second. That we have to learn to take each minute as it comes and ask God to give us the strength to deal with life and learn to control it, and not it control us. We have to say, "God, here I am. Give me the courage too face each day and not let the roadblocks discourage me." Throughout the roadblocks we learn patience and about our strength to deal with life.

We look back and say it was a learning time for us and I know more about who I am now. I have learned from the experiences and became a better person. Those wings are roadblocks, but with Janet's help I didn't get lost for God and Janet showed us the way back. That quiet voice always knows the way home again.

We all need encouragement and support sometime in our journey through life. When our world began to fall apart, Janet has been a person that helps us try to find a new path into a better future. When all our dreams and plans fall apart she was there listening, encouraging, and supporting us. She has made a difference.

Someone once said "In a hundred years from now it won't matter how big a house we had or what kind of car we drove or how big a bank account we had, but what will matter is if we cared about our fellow man enough to make their life better." Janet has changed so many lives. She has taught us to believe in ourselves again and to know that we are imperfect human beings and we make mistakes. She said a behavior is a learned process. We have to recognize that she helps all of us to learn so much about ourselves. She helps us to know that we are strong and that we can endure. She has taught us to hang in there and that the more we understand what is happening in our life, the more we can change it and learn how to make it better.

Today we give thanks to a lady that has never sat in her house and watched the crowd go by with their hurt and problems. She has been one who has been outside in that road with her people. Someone told a story about a man who went to the mountains to be close to God. He prayed to God and said, "God, God, where are you?" God answered him, "I am down here among the people." Janet has been down here among the people.