Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Dear God,

What is prayer really? Is prayer the utterance of human words urging God to do something on our mind? What more is prayer, dear Lord?

There are moments when prayer feels like music, a grandchild's laugh, a daughter's smile, my husband's gentle kiss. Prayer seems like being inside you. I sense a movement from where I am to where you are. I feel the entrance to another world, a divine realm, a vast spiritual energy space where the things of eternity draw me miniaturizing the things of earth. Prayer is the intimate bond between the divine and the human. It is the intimate dance of God and me or you and anyone else. Prayer is like light that slowly and quietly creeps into the darkness. It is the coming together of spiritual forces. It is power that breaks evil and robs fear of it threat. Prayer is the sweet chant of love and forgiveness, of mercy and compassion, of hope, thanksgiving and praise. Prayer is an active gesture of faith leading to wonderment, peace, joy and transformation. Prayer is saying yes in the midst of the no in human life. Prayer is connection on every level.

My heart's desire is to link myself with you as a daily lifestyle, not as something I do to make you accessible to me. I want my life to be full of you as I live and move and have my being as it says in the bible. I want my all to be living in you and you living in me.

What is the truest essence of life if not a deep connection with you?

Make me one
with you,
Esteemed Creator;
make my life
your own.
Teach me
the way
of heaven
that I may
live on earth
even as
in heaven.
Make me
a radiant light
of you,
I pray.

Love, Andrea