Monday, October 29, 2012

Dear God,

As my husband and I celebrate older birthdays this year, I pause to consider the ways you have journeyed with us through the mountains and valleys of life.  A steady look at the past reveals dead ends and high mountain views, stuck places and free wheeling, scary drives and photographic scenes.  In every case you have been the one constant, the living presence in our journeys through life.

There are those undeniable places where we got stuck and stayed quite a long time; yet, you were there urging us to move on, to look forward, to let go, and to take a risk.  Sometimes we were ready and raring to go.  There were other times that we stayed in the muck and mire, the scenery dull and threatening.  But each time you were patient, making offers of a better life, growth, new challenges, and greater days ahead.

Today as I ponder our journeys, I give thanks.

You, O God,
are great
and wonderful.
You are compassionate
and kind.
You are forgiving
and loving.
You are
the source
of all
that is good
in life.
Teach us
to more closely
follow you
separately and together,
I pray.

Love, Andrea