Monday, April 19, 2010

Dear God,

Life lessons at your feet are a gift beyond imagination. I learned about life from my parents, my teachers, mentors, psychology and sociology classes, and from professors in seminary. I have even learned from life itself. But learning from you, listening to your voice through nudges, visions and signs has been much more than what I could have learned from anyone or anything else.

You have shown me, taught me, exhibited a greater dimension of life. Spirituality, a relationship with the Loving Divine, has rendered me a follower. What I have discovered in the depths has been remarkable, extraordinary, miraculous. This realm of being far surpasses an earthly experience. It certainly is not for the faint hearted. Well, actually it is; it is for everyone. It is not a crutch, something one can pick up for a difficult time and then discard it. It is a way of being, a living in the beautiful now knowing that even tomorrow will have its own wonders.

I walked through an unusual doorway a number of years ago. When the heavy, solid wooden door shut behind me, I realized there was no door knob on that side. Through the experience you revealed to me that once we walk through spiritual doors, we cannot return to the time when we had not. There is no fear in it; one is not trapped. Rather new doors open outward to spaces, time and locations that disclose more and more of you. Like lambs with their mothers eating the fruit of the land together in peace, we eat manna, food made in heaven.

Today I am celebrating that wondrous activity called life, especially life with you.

Who can say
there is
no God?
Who wants
a life
without you?
There is
no substitute,
nothing that
can take
your place!
The "more"
that you provide
is better
than all
the abundance
of what
we can accumulate
on earth.
I smile
when I
acknowledge your
glorious presence.
You are God;
there is
no other.

Love, Andrea