What is Wandering to you?? Is it meandering through a specific time or place? Is it a question on what to do next? For me, I think its become both. Wandering as a concept started when I realized I LOVED meandering in the mountains. I love walking or hiking and seeing where it takes me.
However, as I have done this over the past few years I’ve started to wander, in the other definition, if I have in some cases, replaced God with the mountains. That’s a lot of the reason I go there. To feel close to Him and His creations, to feel peace and so my soul can disconnect from the “cares of humanity” and be focused on something else for a time. However, I can’t be in the mountains all the time. Its not reasonable, feasible or even financially viable. The mountains, forests, streams, rivers, waterfalls are all great ways to connect with God, but they can’t be the only way I am doing so. I need to create other spiritual connections with him in ways that I feel I’ve been neglecting.
Interestingly enough, the term Wandering has been used to describe the Children if Israel in the Wilderness. Did you know the journey through that desert should have only taken about a month? They were in the wilderness for 40 years! I think in thus instances they “wandered” in yhe questioning way, even after being rescued by power if God’s prophet. As I pondered this it has really left me with the question of whether or not I’m a spiritual “wanderer” a bit. In the lost sense. I know we’ve all heard the famous saying… “Not all who wander are lost.” But in my case I may have been, but am now slowly finding my way back.
Wander Girl 
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