Friday, April 5, 2013

Dearest God,

Love can push and prod us to do more to love others.  A long time ago I stood before you naked, stripped of all my own power and persuasion, weary from trying to do things my own way, and lost, unable to keep on going.  Life was ebbing away because of illness, years of overworking, family squabbles, and living in a collapsing box of my own making.  I was losing ground and you came to me in a most powerful, loving way. That day, that minute, that second everything changed.  A major shift in my grounding took place and the picture I saw looked dramatically different.  I kept blinking my eyes, smiling and weeping, because you showed me the way things really were.  You revealed another way to live and you offered me the courage, power, and strength to live it your way.  I breathed in a new life knowing with certainty you were the author of compassion, mercy, and grace.

As I began to live your new life for me, trusting implicitly in your guiding direction, I regained myself in a new and wondrous way.  As I reclaimed your loving power in my life receiving constant blessing of love and hope, I followed you.  Whether I felt good or was laid low with illness, I continued to live in divine love that was mine.  Eventually even the illness knelt to your benevolent care and I stood freed by the Great Physician.

Your love urged me to pray for others particularly those I felt had injured me in any way.  In a short period of time my love for all those began to grow.  It grew and grew.  I no longer showed you my list of hurts and names of people who had harmed me.  I trusted you to increase my love and you did in such a wonderful way.  I began to reach out, to pray daily for others, and to give away love because I always had more than I needed. I no longer hoarded your gifts but started regularly sharing with those around me.

Today I gave away love to someone who hurt me a long time ago and I realized how far we, you and I, had come.  Even though I shared my love which was really your love, I still had plenty for myself.  I was still full and surprisingly I watched as you filled the other person.  What a beautiful scene as both of us realized your goodness.

Thank you,
O God,
for moving us
in our
spiritual and
emotional lives.
Thank you
for your unwillingness
to leave us
as we are.
Thank you
for growing us
in grace
enabling us
to give mercy
to others.
Thank you
for showing us
the way
to you
and to
the future.
You are
the only God;
there is none
like you.

Love, Andrea