Monday, March 26, 2012

Dear God,

How can faith break the chains of depression and despair?  How can it replace the things we must surrender in order to live happy, healthy lives?

Yesterday I called a woman that I had not spoken with for a few weeks.  When I inquired how she was doing, she told me she needed to have surgery to remove four bulging discs in her neck.  Her love of sewing, quilting, and making things for others has to been surrendered because metal will take the place of the discs and she will no longer be able to bend her neck allowing her to continue her favorite hobby, a talent she uses every day.  She is devastated.

How do we bend to you, dear Lord, realizing that we need to strengthen our souls for difficult times?  How do we prepare ourselves for sometimes unimaginable losses?  How do we turn to you for affirmation, help, encouragement, love, and hope knowing you are able to fill in every crack, give us courage, and renew life within us?

You are
a mighty
and powerful God.
Your love
is more
than the size
of creation.
Teach us
to step
toward you,
to offer
our prayers.
Open our eyes
to new opportunities,
new avenues
of living
so we might
revitalize ourselves.
Take our fears
and reshape them
with faith,
I pray.

Love, Andrea