Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Dearest God,

How do you give us a tender heart for someone who is hurting?  How do we automatically feel the pain of someone else?  Is that part of our self a part of you?

Sometimes when I pray in thanksgiving for the gifts, graces, and blessings you have given me, an image of a sad brokenhearted refugee mother comes to me.  When I gaze at her in my mind's eye, I see a starving mother with her starving children in a disheveled tent.  Sometimes I see a victim of human trafficking.  I stop my prayer to reflect and think and then my prayer changes, praying for those I see and for ways for me to bless others with gifts too.

When the bible says we are made in your image is that to say you are part of each human?  Is that part of you that is within me the inspiration for my immediate care and prayer for someone else?  Is that the way you work?

Reveal your mysteries
to me,
O Lord,
that I
might be effective
for your purpose.
Show me
the way.
Teach me
to care
for all those
you bring
to me.

Love, Andrea