Saturday, May 15, 2010

Dear God,

How do I make you first in my life and keep you there? It seems to me that my life will model your attributes, your character and your presence. When I follow you, carefully listening for your direction, my life will exhibit your kindness, love, grace and hope.

At sixty three years of age, I want to be the full person you designed and destined me to be. But how can I display your image if I do not daily follow you humbly and obediently?

When I am loving, I feel a sense deep down in my bones that I am being like you. I am letting you shine in and through me. But when I act selfishly and forget that being loving is most like you, then I fail to rise to the level of heaven.

I believe that you produce clues all day long as to how I am to live. If I see someone struggling and I reach out, then inside I experience a closeness to you and to my brother and sister whose life just connected with mine. But if I look the other way, make fun or try to justify my attitude and behavior, then something feels uncomfortable inside me. I know I have forgotten the way that leads to life.

Make me
your own,
dear God;
teach me
every day
how to live,
I pray.

Love, Andrea