Sunday, January 1, 2012

Dear God,

How can I learn to trust you more?  How can we as a world learn to accept you as God of the cosmos and trust you to lead us?  How can we do it, Lord?

As I read through history, I see grave mistakes we made as a people.  We warred over land, treasure, water, control, and power.  What we have wanted, we have stopped at nothing to get.  We have killed, robbed, maimed, and threatened.  Our mindset is to take what we want by any means we can get it.

What will this year look like if we function in this way? Who will we hurt?  What will be left behind?  How far from your divine plan will we go?

As I begin my life in this new year, help me steer away from anything that is not of you.  Help me listen more and react less.  Help me to let faith lead me to love more.  Help me live a life of forgiveness where mercy and compassion are always at my fingertips.  Help me walk in grace both receiving it and giving it, knowing you as its power source.  Help me create a space within me where you live and move and direct me.  Help me fulfill your will for my life.  Help me become an instrument of peace who constantly carries an olive branch with me.  Help me become a witness to your living presence in the world.

Great God,
throughout this
new year
guide me
to the source
of living water.
Help me
bow down
to drink.
Make me
drink often
and deeply
so that
I may become
more conscious
of daily living
with you.
Make my ways
like yours
so that
I may
have the mind
of your
beloved Christ,
I pray.

Love, Andrea