Monday, November 3, 2008

Dear God,

I have moved over to the next lane. The path I have followed until now is being made new for someone else.

The view from the next lane is okay. I can see the first lane very well. I have lived there now for some time. I have done what I could. I have worked hard, prayed hard, loved hard. But now I have a new role to play in the next lane. I want to work as hard, pray as hard and love as hard to prepare the first lane for another, to make sweet the transition when I will need to hand the baton to the next person.

Entering the next lane is somewhat new to me. I have had to move over before to help prepare for a next person but I've always had a new lane to jump into. Not now. The time is coming rapidly when I will soon move from this lane too to the outside lane.

Trusting you in the change has been my heart's desire. Why make the move without you? Is this not ministry of a new sort? Is this not a call to faithfulness? Is this not a new thing you are doing?

Keep my eye
on you,
Gracious Love,
for I want
to follow
you only.
When I allow
my eyes
to move
from you
to another,
I will surely
end up
at a dead end
or worse.
You are God,
the God
to be followed.
Everything else
is false,
a cheap replica
that will
lead me nowhere.
I long only
to be somewhere
with you.

Love, Andrea