I didn’t have a map just a gnawing feeling,

A yearning to know down in the depths of my being.

Driven to go and to find the answers,

Like a researcher searching for the cure for cancer.

Constantly thinking and wondering why?

So much chaos and confusion, I couldn’t deny.

What’s the meaning behind all that I see?

And what’s the purpose?  I needed the key.

Finding this treasure came with a cost,

As just before finding it, I truly was lost.

You see the trail on which I’d been hiking,

Was filled with much for disliking.

Relationships that were breaking,

My heart that was aching.

Anger that was seeping,

And tears that were weeping.

Years went by, but I kept on pursuing,

Only realizing after, it was my heart He was wooing.

You see the treasures I was seeking,

Looked much different than the one I was needing.

It wasn’t in a chest.

Or something I could invest.

The treasure that I found,

Provided something so much more profound.

Answers to questions I didn’t even ask,

To whom I truly was, hiding behind my mask.

He knew more about me than I did about myself,

And caused me to stretch for answers high up on a shelf.

To use my mind to examine the data,

And to decide for myself if He truly was, the Alpha and Omega.

My heart, once alive, had almost stopped beating,

It was time to turn, and stop retreating.

As I was mulling over the questions using my mind,

His light was warming my heart, as it steadily shined.

The love that I felt was as real as can be,

The treasure for which I’d been searching, had finally found me.

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. – Jesus (Matthew 7:7-8)