Monday, January 10, 2011

Dearest God,

I love the beginning of a new day, a new week, a new year. With a freshness of unsoiled space and time, I love to enter the new with hope, faith, gratitude and joy. I love to start anew, to meet you with a clean heart and to know your holy spirit presence is all pervading. That's why I love to rise early, to welcome the new day in darkness where I can't even see what is before me and to utter a prayer of thanksgiving.

This outlook, this feeling, this gift challenges me to consider who I am, what I think, how I live and behave, and what I give to the world. I know that it is simply not possible to hoard all the incredible possibilities and blessings that present themselves. I am certain they are meant to be shared with others. And who would want to barricade one's self inside a home counting their many blessings and then placing them in a safe only to be counted a little while later, then shutting them up again for safekeeping?

Today is a new start with you.

Guide me,
O Thou Great Jehovah,
lead me
to the destinations
you have selected
for me.
Remind me
who is guide
and leader.
Refresh my memory
that I am
your follower.

Love, Andrea