Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Dear God,

How does music get so deep into my soul?  It seems it starts from a deep place and goes deeper inside me.  As I rested from a continuing weariness, I put on the CD entitled, At the Water's Edge by Tim Janis.  As I closed my eyes and listened, I felt your love stir within me.  There you played eternity's song of peace and solitude.  My eyes welled with joy and gratitude.

If only we knew the extent of your love for humanity.  If only we could accept the love you send out from the center of the cosmos.  If only we believed you are greater than we.  If only we would surrender ourselves into your hands and live eternity's dream for us.  If only we could set aside our worries and burdens, our addictive ways, our need to constantly fill ourselves with the world's goods, and our narrow vision of a self-centered life.  If only we could let love lead us.  If only we were willing to grab hold of your grace.  If only...we would see and hear you.

Lead us
to you,
Loving Lord;
lead us
to eternity's home
where grace abounds
and the opportunity
to live
in your light
is ever present.
Show us
how to
live in
the depths
every moment
of every day.
Then release
heaven's praise
within us
so we
may give thanks
over and over again,
all day long.

Love always, Andrea