Friday, September 26, 2008

Dearest God,

I lay on my bed resting when I turned over and looked up into the sky. There, a tear in eternity revealed a partial rainbow. One small opening. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Mesmerized, I lay there watching it, thinking at any moment it would disappear. But not so. I watched it for 20 minutes. I moved from side to side, thinking it must be an illusion. I've never seen a rainbow last that long. I stood up but still it remained high in the sky. When I walked away, I peeked back and it continued as the most beautiful picture among the many gray and white clouds.

Signs of hope appear on the horizon when the soul is open to manifestations of your spirit. Just crying out, "Lord, Lord,"...can give way to a spiritual enlightenment. The soul is made glad.

Carrying my own burdens, concerns of children and grandchildren, family, health as well as burdens of the church sometimes makes my soul so weary. I feel the weight. My upright posture can change leaving me low. I drag, forgetting that there is a presence willing to help me carry it. The continuing rainbow was an extension of your hand reaching low to me.

How often have you spoken to your people in an attempt to motivate us to turn to you? How many times have you placed a sign or symbol before us as a way to say I am near? Can we really wander so far that we can displace that presence? No, never!

Today after several hours of rest, I allowed my body, soul and mind to drink in your lavish love and grace. I drank from your fountain of mercy and felt your compassion fill my being. There is nowhere I can go to receive so much.

And so as the sun begins to set, when this day is almost over, when I return to my bed for the night, my heart will turn to you in quiet praise and thanksgiving.

You, Most High,
cry out
to your children,
"Child, Child of my love,
listen to my voice,
hear my words
of comfort,
sit by my pool
of living water.
Drink,
be restored,
renewed,
know that
my water
is always accessible,
always available
to you."
I drink
and am glad.

Loving you always, Andrea