Friday, February 26, 2010

Dear God,

Two words came to me today - flexibility and adaptability. Life lesson number what? In the last year you have taken me by the hand and taught me life lessons. Although at times I was like a child, you have shown me the value and meaning of learning something from every difficult thing in life. You have revealed to me that life is better embraced when I look for a pearl through the irritants that come my way. Like the oyster pearls are always possible.

Irritants are not people you have told me; they are simply life issues. You have made clear to me that my ability to listen and learn will drive me further down the road of life than my inability to do so. If I gain valuable lessons from the hurts, disappointments, sorrows, injustice, misunderstandings, and mistakes, then I will experience joy and peace. I will make changes, be transformed and willingly follow your lead. I will gain insights, store up courage, learn how to interpret events from various perspectives, and find strength for unsettling events in the future. I will learn to gain from every troubling experience. I will make decisions not to rehash pain over and over again because I will know that a lesson awaits me, a gift from you.

Flexibility and adaptability simply mean an ability to move from rigid positions. Being able to move with your spirit means I will be able to see life from different views. I will be able to change positions as your spirit breathes upon me. I will take in more possibilities for the future. I will not be stuck and be like an instant replay that is replayed again and again and again. Hope will remain inside me all the time. I will never lose it or be afraid of its loss.

Being able to be fluid and flowing is much preferred over any other position. When I have failed in the past, it has been because I put up road blocks, held on to old fears, stayed in decaying beliefs and attitudes, blamed and judged others for my dilemma and hid away so I didn't have to face life. But what did I attain or accomplish? Nothing really, I simply got the opportunity to remain in my muck, see only through a murky lens, repeat my mistakes, blame others and live life disappointed. No joy to speak of. I robbed myself of the joys of heaven.

I move more easily now because I learned with your help it is easier, more meaningful, valuable and lovelier to move with your loving spirit than to remain immovable in concrete that sucks the life right out of me. You and I dance more freely now. Isn't that wonderful?

Thank you,
Gracious God,
for new learnings
and greater hope.
Together
we can dance
our way
around the globe
spilling out
joy, hope,
peace, beauty,
love, forgiveness
and mercy.
All praise
goes to you,
my Lord,
all praise.

Love, Andrea