Thursday, December 30, 2010

Dearest God,

I lived inside a miracle today. Although feeling poorly with a cold and flu, one of our sons and his family came to visit. Throughout the day I watched as you went to work healing, helping, guiding, renewing, challenging. While others prepared the food, I talked with grandchildren, listened to their Christmas surprise for their father, and watched as their eyes twinkled as they spoke. A path once marred by disappointment, fear, anger, and resentment was made straight just as the king's highway for the savior.

As hugs were shared all around at their leaving, an insight was shared, an important link from the past giving hope to the future. A phone call minutes later struck a significant chord and I swear by your name a new beginning unfolded.

Who can know when you initiate new out of old? Who can say when the past no longer has a binding hold on the present? When can we know that you have shaken our lives opening cracks to develop a new future? How can we know you are moving inside us and those around us?

O Gracious God,
your plan
is always good,
brilliant in fact.
You work
with the invisible
making visible
your hope
and our faith.
Miracles are
your work,
dear God,
but walking alongside
while you are
at work
is a gesture
of such
divine love.
How grateful
I am
to have witnessed
your goodness,
to have felt
your love,
to have seen
your compassion
and mercy.
Forgiveness is truly
a beautiful thing,
so is
moving out
of one's self
to meet another.

Love always, Andrea