Friday, June 5, 2009

Dear God,

I started the day by cleaning out the clutter in the kitchen, not my own, someone else's. I took everything out of the cabinets. I washed the shelves, threw away odd plastic lids and trash from the drawers. I put all the glasses together, the pots and pans, baking dishes and foodstuff items. I organized, making it easier to find things, to put like items together. It felt good.

I wish life was that simple. Uncluttering the clutter, finding usable space for all things, putting things together, bringing order to the disorder and chaos. "A place for everything and everything in its place." But it's just not that way.

I like an organized, uncluttered, ordered life. I like to know where things go so I can put them in their assigned place. I want to put things in the right spot. I want things to be efficient and usable, helpful and orderly. But it seems just as I get things put into place, something comes along to mess it all up. Things come tumbling down and I have to pick up the pieces and start over.

I need to begin each day with a specific prayer to release my need to put things in order. I need to begin each day with a prayer of thanksgiving for what I have, clutter and all. I need to begin each day with a heart full of you that sees life through a divine lens. I need to see what you see at the beginning of each day. I need to begin with you.

May I see
life's trials
and travails
through a
sacred lens,
O God.
May I begin
each day
with gratitude.
May I
let go
of what
needs releasing
and pick up
what needs
to be
lifted up.
May I trust
in you
rather than
ask you
to bless
what I
have already done.
May I
trust more,
release more,
love more,
forgive more,
dear God,
I pray.

Love, Andrea