You Are Not Lost

Waiting Without Panic Until the Path Is Clear

You Are Not Lost: Waiting Without Panic Until the Path Is Clear is a gentle, honest spiritual companion for anyone who has felt disoriented—on the road, in life, or in faith.

Beginning with a simple, relatable experience of panic when losing one’s way while driving, Geoffrey Schmitt (writing as Willingheart) opens a deeper exploration of why uncertainty unsettles us so deeply. Drawing from Scripture, pastoral ministry, hospice work, prison ministry, marriage, and a lifetime of movement and change, he reframes panic not as failure, but as a doorway to trust.

Through reflections on wilderness seasons, waiting, shared calm, hindsight clarity, and the quiet assurance that “the ocean is still there,” this study invites readers to slow down, breathe, and rediscover God’s faithful presence when maps fail and answers delay.

Written in a devotional Bible-study format—each chapter including Scripture, teaching, meditation, reflection, poem, questions, prayer, and a “Smithy’s Forge” practice—this book is ideal for individual reading or group study.

At its heart, this is not a book about finding answers.

It is a book about learning to remain calm, faithful, and hopeful while the path unfolds.