Friday, July 4, 2008

Dearest God,

We all got together, a first in more years than any of us can remember. A family fractured to the core, now reconciled, laughing, teasing, playing together. Little cousins saying to one another, "I've got so many cousins."

A miracle. It's a miracle, a miraculous event planned, orchestrated, and played out by your hand. This family gathering has happened not because someone died, but because we are alive. The golden strands that pulled us together were made in heaven. First this one, then another, and yet another until somehow we found our hearts longing for one another. We let go, released, surrendered past hurts and disappointments, all the wrongs; we just allowed them to dissipate...finally, making it possible for just such a gathering.

Lord, how did you do it? How did you soften our hearts? How did you cause us to let go of those things that were so hurtful? How did you massage our spirits making ourselves willing do things differently? How did you make us one again, in spirit and in love?

Someone once said that there are some things too broken to be repaired. Yet, you mended us, repaired those injured, wounded parts of our hearts. You made it possible for healing to occur, making way for the greatest hurt of all - our separateness from one another - to be healed, allowing us to be family again. Only a reunion of spirits, of heart, of love, and joy could return us to one another and to you.

Although we couldn't stay for the grand celebration of fireworks, we were partying in our hearts, a celebration of great proportion, an event worthy of praise to our Creator and our Remaker.

You have remade us.
You have
put within us
the capacity
to love one another
again.
You have given
us the desire
to put away
the weapons
we used
to keep ourselves
separate from
one another.
You have sealed
our love
for one another
with a seal
from heaven.
How could we ever
tear ourselves apart
from one another
ever again?
Who could rip
the divine seal
of heaven?

Loving you, Andrea