Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Dearest God,

Today I turn 65 years old. How can it be? Just yesterday I was 64. I never imagined myself as 65; yet, today I savor the thought of living 65 years.

What do I like best about being 65? It's so easy. The answer immediately comes to my mind. It is my years with you. To reflect upon wondrous moments of faith, miracle, challenge, transformation, growth, and love gives me great, great joy! What else could be as momentous?

As I think about the ups and downs of my life, I realize that everything is an opportunity for an "up" moment. Hardships, disappointments, and hurts lead me to you. Although I may not always like obvious answers to my dilemma, just knowing you are influencing my life causes my soul to soar.

On this day I am grateful to those who aroused my curiosity, instigated new thoughts, quickened my faith, and spurred me on to better places in my life. To all those persons who invested themselves in me, I am appreciative. To those who pushed me onto unfamiliar soil giving me the chance to rethink my position, to try new things, to take a different route, to shift, to change, to wonder, and to anticipate your loving presence in all things, my heart is full of love for them.

As I breathe in the air of your spirit and my heart is awakened to your many gifts during my 65 years, I give thanks again and again and again and again.

What gift
can I
give you,
Gracious and Generous God?
What can
I give you?
I owe you everything!

Love always, Andrea