Friday, June 15, 2007

Dearest God,

I danced to new music today, the sights and sounds of water. As my hands raised naturally toward the heavens, I realized how easy it is to let go, to release one's self into your hands. To let nothing hinder, is to trust God wholly.

I imagined standing at the ocean in the early morning hours, the rhythmic sound of the water urging me to dance, singing me their song of gratitude to the oceanic God of the heavens. I could see myself being drawn to you, High and Holy One, drawn like a honeybee to a flower. Then moving, dancing, erupting in joy before you.

The life of spirit gently moves one beyond our daily life exercises. Another sound, scene calls to something so deep inside ourselves, allowing the deepest part of our soul to step forward, to call out her name, then connect with the Sacred, with you Almighty God. This spirit life is the foundation of who I am, and who I go to as the source of all life. This is the most beautiful part of me, this living place who cries out for me to be the living being I have been created to be. I only wish I had the courage to live here always, live out my life from this call, in love with God and willing to be the divine creature you have called me to be. Not divine in the sense of sacred greatness, there is only One. But the being made in the image of God, living life sacredly.

The second image that came to me was one of other women at the ocean's edge, a sacred playground in the dawn of a new day. Women, free, liberated to be fully themselves, drawn only by a sacred thread to you, dearest God. They were beautiful, dressed in white, pastels, a vision of loveliness because your light shone upon them. And they too began to dance, slowly, moving carefully to the sound of your voice. Mesmerized by the God of the universe they moved with you as you sang the secrets of the universe. Who can do anything else? Who would want to?

This vision is one of tranquil serenity, where persons are one with you, our Divine Maker. And then I could see others from the universe coming from all parts of the earth. All drawn to God, willing participants in the spirit life. Is there love more majestic, joy more full, peace more possible? Your creatures standing in awe of you.

We stand with you
in a moment of rare beauty.
Time stops,
but the sounds of sacred wonder
move us.
Love continues,
confounds us with its generosity.
Tears form,
as we recognize the holiness
of the moment.
Inner joy wells
within us
as we hear
our own hearts
beating to the sound
of one Divine Heart.
And so we dance,
the dance of love
for our one great God.

Forever yours, Andrea