Saturday, August 14, 2010

My dearest God,

Why is it that small, sometimes teeny things inspire me to search for trails leading to you? Why do I daily lean toward the sacred dimensions of life? If it is true that I can spiritualize a toothpick (someone once said this about me) then what does it mean that I do so?

Is life made up of daily sacred happenings? Is it truly possible that everything that happens can be an occasion for divine learning? Ever since you invited me to write you a daily letter, each day I have been on the hunt for "God events." Whether concrete moments of joy erupting out of difficulty or finding hope in deep sorrow, it seems to me you appear every day.

What I have personally discovered over the course of these five years while I have been on my search is that you want an abiding relationship with every child in the universe. Through a variety of experiences, I have learned that you want to turn painful occasions into times of grasping for deeper occurrences of your spirit. Such moments can be like finding a vein of gold in the dark recesses of earth.

Although I find daily life exhilarating and full of infinite possibilities, I have also come to the realization that there is more beneath the surface. What I may see outside my front room window is a lovely tree but I know what is rooted below the ground is an unfathomable system of nourishment, growth, and beauty. In the dead of winter I will frequently gaze upon a bare tree and smile thinking about what it happening beneath the frozen ground.

Life events
cause me
to pause
and think
about you,
dear God.
I do not know
your grand design;
I only catch
a mere glimmer
but oh,
how sweet.

Giving thanks, Andrea