Sunday, November 13, 2011

Dear God,

I believe there is a wideness in your mercy. I believe it expands far beyond the eye can see. I believe it drips down from heaven particularly when we least expect it.

As we drove across the plains of Iowa, the land seemed to stretch on forever. Now and then a farm would crop up, a windmill would be seen in the distance, and the sky would lift up from the horizon giving the eye a majestic look at your creation. As large as it all appeared, I imagined your mercy to be greater than these.

For me the long trip from Indiana to Iowa and back provided a picture of length and height. Although we enjoyed the landscape the three states provided, it was the length and height that reminded me how vast your mercy is.

At our destination, a tiny town in Iowa, I not only witnessed your mercy but experienced it first hand. I felt it come down upon those of us who had traveled the thousand mile round trip. As we celebrated our being together, we knew who it was that had blessed us.

Good and Gracious God,
thank you
for the gift
of your mercy.
Remind us
that mercy received
is to be
mercy given.
Help us
to be merciful
to one another.

Love, Andrea