Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Dearest God,

What is the deepest human motion? The deepest connection any human can have? Is it with one's own self, another human, or is it with you?

As I read of late the grisly tragedies of abuse and murder, I wonder if such persons have not yet moved into the deepest part of their soul, finding a kindly God to lead them? Is the entrance to the door of life blocked? What is it that hinders the soul from falling into divine love?

My heart sorrows as I think of murdered children, parents who believe they have the right to snuff out the lives of precious beating hearts. I cannot take it all in.

It seems that crimes in America are becoming more heinous, more bizarre. I think of the driving force that leads person to do the unthinkable, the inconceivable. What base instinct tells someone to take the life of another? It is all so troubling.

When a professor once asked what faith boils down to, a simple statement without all the liturgy and doctrine that come together in faith, I answered, "love." For me it is love. Your love is the deepest emotion, a pool of diving caring, one that can flood any human heart. Such love can heal any heart, broken by God only knows what.

I always come back to that statement. Faith is all about love, divine love, love that can hold any person, any where in any situation. Yes, even the most ungodly. I don't know all the ins and the outs. Only you, Divine Creator, know how you have made us.

May my own life
be ever more
a display of your love.
May my being
inspire another
to drop back
into the pool
of divine agape love.
May my service
make your love
more real.

Love, Andrea