Saturday, March 24, 2012

Dear God,

How do you create insights in the human mind that can make such a difference in the human soul?  What can we do to prepare ourselves to meet you in the intersections of doubt and wonderment?

A woman called me today.  Asking if I had a minute to talk, for over an hour she poured out her heart to me how she had found the missing piece in her life.  For as long as she could remember, there had been a hole, a giant question, that she could not answer.  Tormented at times, behaving in seemingly bizarre ways, she could not understand herself or her ways.

But yesterday it all came to her at the pottery shop.  What was to be a simple evening choosing a pottery piece and painting it with her husband turned into a time of confusion, fear, and sorrow.  She had become so undone that she felt somehow she had lost herself.  She had not seen you enter the shop earlier.

Late, late into the night as she and her husband talked, you gave the answer.  You explained it all.  You did it in such a way that an unusual bonding occurred between her and her husband.  Faith, she said, had revealed the truth to her and for the first time in her life, she felt free.

Transforming God,
I am confident
that you desire
to work
in the minds,
hearts, and spirits
of all
your people.
I believe
you want
to settle,
resolve the issues
in all
our lives.
Help us
to anticipate
your living presence,
to live
in hope,
and to
make ready
for your grace
to warm
our hearts,
stir our minds,
and minister
in our souls.
Then make us
a celebratory people
who want only
to praise you.

Love, Andrea