Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Dear God,

The words keep coming to me: "The earth is not happy with us." With all the natural disasters occurring around us, I wonder if there isn't a message to earth's inhabitants.

I look around the world and I see fighting and conflict. I see one people destroying another. I see violence on the rise. I see the need of one group to lord over another. I see national leaders robbing their people of life sustenance. I see no remorse, a brokenness of spirit that lays at your feet crushed by their own actions, with a deep desire for repentance. I see a desire to hurt, harm, terrorize and break the spirit of your own people. And I wonder.

Last night as I lay in bed falling asleep, I heard the crack of thunder, a wicked sound so loud and mean that I was tempted to be frightened by what I heard. But instead I was lulled to sleep by the knowledge that I lay in the cradle of my God.

I have to be attentive to my own thoughts and actions. Am I contributing to this destruction? Am I harming others around me? Am I a robber of the spirit? And then I have to think again once I have owned my part. How can I offer beauty to the cosmos? How can I sing a lullaby to the world's people? How can I let the earth know that I respect and appreciate her own nature? How can I offer love, a truly repentant love that brings healing and hope?

Today I will sing to the earth a love song. I will lift up my voice so that it will rise up to heaven. Perhaps the song itself which is your Song will somehow be transmitted to the uneasy spirits, the broken spirits, the fearing spirits, the demonic spirits. Perhaps your Song will ease the restless spirit, bringing new hope and promise. One song, not mine but yours sung by a repentant singer.

May all
our love songs
calm the earth.
May we sing
just one great song,
the song
of faith,
the song
of peace and joy,
the song
of hope and healing.
Forgive us
and our errant ways.
Heal our earth
and all
her people,
Loving Father,
I pray.

Love, Andrea