Saturday, March 10, 2012

Dear God,

"Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart", we sang in church last Sunday.  Indeed, be thou my vision.  Every time we sing this old hymn I pray the hymn while I sing it.  I pray you will be my vision because I want to see what you want me to see, to envision the beauty of faith, and to be prepared to live out the vision in your grace.

Who can shine light like you?  Who can paint a picture lovelier that you?  Who can create a vision better than you?  No one.  No one.

As I bind myself more closely to you, I see more, hear more, taste and touch more.  I can smell the sweet scent of faith as I am enlivened by the relationship we share.  More and more I realize that there is another dimension to life when I surrender my will into your hands.  It does not mean I become a limp puppet but rather I walk confidently in faith knowing whose mission it is to love, to forgive, and to transform.

As I walk through these next 24 hours of Lent, may you truly be the vision before me.  May I anticipate your living presence being revealed and may I be willing to do what you ask.

Holy God,
what a privilege
it is
to walk
with you,
to be
tended to
by you,
and to
be enabled
to live
a life
of faith
in you.
What better gift
is there
than to see
through the eyes
of faith?

Love, Andrea