Friday, March 1, 2013

Dear God,

Thank you for spiritual homes, those spaces of holy ground dedicated to the work of your spirit.  Thank you for residences of eternal love where people can gather and know there is spiritual power and yes, even forgiveness and grace.  Thank you for spiritual people whose hearts beat in rhythm with your very own and who have given their lives to be door openers to faith.  Thank you for monastic women and men who know you, follow you, and make space for you every day.  Thank you for every door you have opened to us.

Today, O Lord, I am so grateful for all the spiritual homes you have opened to me throughout the years.  A grandmother's home, church homes, monasteries, retreat centers, religious sites, and historic landmarks.  Thank you too for planes and trains in which you touched my life.  Even street corners and coffee shops and  bars where there were internet connections so I could write you.  Even garbage dumps where Christian workers minister to generations who live there.  Thank you for all the holy ground where your spirit breeze  blows.

Teach me
to revere
holy ground,
to anticipate
your living presence
everywhere I go.
Open my eyes
to faith
every day
so I
will not miss
the opportunity
to praise you.
Thank you
for all those
who opened
the doors
of faith
for me.
I am
so grateful.

Love always, Andrea