Saturday, February 23, 2013

Dear God,

What an ecstatic joy to fully realize your love for all of us, even me!  That realization alone inspires me to love you right back.  Who could love me as much?  Who could know what I need better or care more than you?  Who else would want to challenge me to rise up to a deeper, fuller life more than you?  No one, not one.  No one is even a close second.  In fact, we would have to start a different category of love and begin there.

I woke up this morning thinking about your love and that led me to consider the depth of your grace.  Grace, that unconditional mercy that has no bottom to its deep well.  Your compassionate mercy leads you to love us so much.  What do you get out of the love of a simple human being?

Show us
the way
to your kind
of love,
Merciful God.
Teach us
your way
of loving
so every human
on the planet
will not
only know
but experience
your extraordinary
kind of love.

Gratefully yours, Andrea