Thursday, September 22, 2011

Dear God,

How can time and space collapse leaving only the exquisite gems of your radiant beauty? How do you create waves of music that lift us up, taking us on a spirit ride?

Tonight at choir practice I experienced those gems and the ride. I listened to the composer's words, words that spoke of trust, faith, love, and power. I sensed the spirit of John and Charles Wesley as they wrote the words many, many years ago. I felt your presence as I listened to the composers and the singers in the sanctuary. Both transported me to eternity's home where you reside.

What I want to know is how do you do it? Why do you do it? How do you move our spirits so close to you opening the doors of heaven?

I think I know the answer to why. Why wouldn't you draw the human mind, heart, and soul to you? Why would you not want to give the best to your children? Why would you not want us close where your spirit breath can breathe on us? I believe love is at the center of the why question.

As for the how to's, I ask because I am positive you want all the world's children ushered into your sacred presence where the greatest beauty of all there is is revealed. I am certain you want love, genuine agape love, to capture every heart, fill every being, restore every soul, and renew every spirit.

I am convinced you want to create a world of community, harmony, and peace where every person has access and a clear path to you, not just for tomorrow and eternity but for all our todays. I am persuaded that you desire for us to come with open and willing hearts to do your supreme will.

As I take spirit jaunts every day, I marvel at the divine love I find present in the world, bits and pieces of you that cause me to rise to higher levels of love and faith and how I do love it!

Masterful God,
Great Lover of Creation,
thank you
for quiet moments
that teach us,
remind us,
shape and
inspire us.
Thank you
for joy
that follows
and faith
that grows.

Forever yours, Andrea