Out of the palace, into the wild, driven
By my error in the wagon of failure:
Royalty crashed into poverty: enslaved.
Beauty displaced by tattered leaves
Announcing vulnerability I sought to hide.
Out of the palace, into the wild, driven
By my rebellion in the wagon of frustration:
I tasted hunger, I knew want, I felt death.
My condemnation chasing, stalking
Wherever I went, ruining whatever I touched.
Out of the palace, into the wild, driven
By sorrow in the wagon of my desires
I wept for all I had that now is lost.

Food For Thought: “Teach me O God to apply my heart to wisdom, to learn from others so I don’t have to go through painful experiences to learn,” is one of my prayers. Adam and Eve had to lose all they enjoyed to learn what privileges Eden endued. Some spouses have had to lose their loved ones to learn that they should have been treated better. Some of us have had to fail to learn success. We have had to bear hunger and poverty to quit taking the people and things that God brings our way for granted. Different folks have different ways of learning. Sometimes the loss is temporal, sometimes it is recoverable, but many a times, it is heartbreakingly permanent. If I have a choice, I would rather learn from others. No experience is new however unique it may appear. Someone has already been through it. And if that be the case, why must we go through the pains to learn the same lessons we could have tapped from others? Question I asked myself as I watch my life and that of others jerk with consequences of our errors until I learned: there are some lessons we will not learn until experience has stamped its indelible fingerprints upon our lives. I believe and affirm that experience is not the best teacher- there are cheaper and wiser ways to learn. Nevertheless, the way experience imparts its lessons make them unforgettable. May we not lose our place, our honor, our glory, to finally learn in regret.

Scripture: Direct my steps by Your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me. Psalm 119: 133.

Prayer: Dear Lord, deliver me from the errors of my ways, deliver me from the errors of ignorance and from the invisible traps of pursuing my desires at the expense of Your will, amen.