Monday, January 24, 2011

Dear God,

I love a pristine forest where everything looks perfectly designed and orchestrated. But I also love an untouched snowfall where tree branches, bushes, and ground hold millions of tiny snow flakes. I love to look out and see a smooth and delicate white ground, a true Currier and Ives scene.

Although these scenes are my favorite, I also enjoy awakening early in the morning when the moon's glow creates long shadows illuminating the picture before me. That's when I see them, tiny footprints of rabbits, deer, birds and other night creatures.

Such images cause me to reflect upon the beautiful world you have created and then given to all your children. I realize that we too have the opportunity to make our mark, leave our print, and trail off into the future. We get the choice of where we will walk, pause, turn and go. I believe we each have a distinct print, different from everyone else.

Equally important we get to be surprised by the prints, the marks that coincide with ours. We can join a march with others or linger in a solitary place where peace can enter and we are enabled to carry that peace to yet another intersection. We can circle round and nest, being fed our spiritual nourishment. We can tromp, run, drop and roll, play, skip, jump, even leap. Each activity will make unique pictures about our life alone and with others, even our life with you.

This morning as I gaze upon the wintry scene, I accept the challenge to do my part today, to make a single mark or maybe do a doubles dance with eternity.

Thank you,
O God,
for sacred scenes
that call us
to deep places.
I'm grateful
for this day's opportunities.

Love, Andrea