Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Dear God,

I continue to hear stories of miracles and of heartbreak. One person celebrates, falls on their knees in praise and one agonizes, falls on their knees in prayer. Both find you.

O God, as I watch the news account of people found alive in the earthquake and those who sit by collapsed buildings just feet from dead relatives, I pray and weep at the same time. One person's joy, I pray, gives hope to another's sorrow. I see the faces of those helping, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, ministers, even survivors who carry the injured to makeshift hospitals and I think how much we need one another. One person's need inspires another to help. We are made by you to reach out to those around us. What a beautiful picture of compassionate mercy.

Our lives
are wed
to one another;
this is
your grand design.
The impulse
to help
comes from you,
Sacred Designer,
Master Creator,
Compassionate God;
our prayers
offered on
behalf of others
is really
a love letter
to you.

Gratefully, Andrea