Thursday, November 29, 2012

Dear God,

You open eyes to your spirit.  You offer opportunities to take the journey of a lifetime.  You equip your people for a life of faith.  You touch, inspire, challenge, and transform!

Today I watched your spirit move in a mighty and mysterious way.  Gently you nudged, opening eyes to the past.  Carefully you peeled away layers of resentment, bitterness, and anger.  There beneath it all we discovered the source of pain, nearly 40 years of it.  Tears followed as we looked at one picture after another.

In the living room of our beloved spiritual home the prayers of those who had come before us held our friend as we allowed ourselves to be embraced by love divine.  We sensed the thousands of prayers prayed here, muttered by the weary, the needy, the frightened, the doubter, the forgotten, and the hopeful, each one turning to you for guidance.  We listened and followed the road revealed that led to you.

God of Power and Might,
thank you
for the ways
in which
you move
in our lives.
Thank you
for your
tender care
in opening us
to the truth
that sets us free.
Thank you
for spiritual homes
that await us,
giving us
hopeful chances
to find
our way home.
Blessed are you,
Lord God,
for all
your gifts.

Love, Andrea