Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Dear God,

My sister called me. How many years has it been? Six, seven, eight? She's coming home again. What once was lost now is found.

My family was lost. We wandered, couldn't find our way back. For years we stayed away, not wanting to go home. We looked for other places. But we were never content. Our hearts were broken, the pieces strung along the paths we took. Didn't have the wherewithal to follow our own footsteps back.

But one day. It just happened. Years after leaving home we found a path that lead us to one another. Surprised to find a brother, a sister, a daughter, a cousin on our same path leading to the same place, we offered gentle hellos. We didn't walk together, weren't ready. But we took comfort that we were each headed toward the light that warms, breaking the chill, the light that lifts the fog, bringing clarity. The burdens of the past that had held us back, began to fall, chunk by chunk. I know because I heard it, felt the lightening of the load.

In the light we gathered, amazed to see the changes in others only to realize the scales had simply fallen from our own eyes, enabling us to see the truth. In the light everything is beautiful. Even the scars take on a new hue. Life begins to make sense. All things take on greater value.

This light, it is yours. Like a good father shines the light for a child in the dark to follow, we grasp hold and walk toward it. What comfort and hope comes as we trust the light to show us the way. You are the way home.

Shine on me,
light of heaven.
Lead my way.
Be the light
that warms
my chill.
Be the light
that guides.
Be the light
that reveals
the truth
that sets us free.
Be the light
that I might stretch
to grab a ray
shining
just for me.
Let me be
a light ray
for you,
shining light
for others
lost in the darkness.
Let me hold
your light
like a lampstand
so the whole world
can find its way.
Light of the world,
I bow down
in your grace.
Once broken in spirit,
now restored
in the light.
You are the light,
the light of the world,
the light in my life.
May my light
point the way
to you,
the true Light.

Love, Andrea