Welcome to Little Detours with Regina Brett!

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My life has been full of so many detours, paths I never planned on taking but each one led me to you. It’s like that Rascal Flats song lyric: God blessed the broken road that led me straight to you.

We’re all faced with little detours. Big ones, too. Just when you think you’ve got everything in place, life pulls a switcheroo. The road zigs right when you zagged. Your hopes and dreams hit a dead end or you simply run out of gas and feel stranded on the highway of life while everyone else seems to be happily zipping past you.

It can feel like a disaster, that divorce or diagnosis or detour you never planned on taking in life. Or it can be the start of a wild, wonderful spiritual adventure that will end up blessing your life and the lives of others.

This poem by Mizuta Masahide, a 17th-century Japanese poet always makes my heart smile:

Barn's burnt down --
now
I can see the moon.

The moon inspires me most when it’s far from full.

Let’s do some stargazing here and see our lives from that spiritual aerial view where the Universe reveals the awe in the awful, the mystery in the mistakes, the magic in the mess.

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