Sunday, May 12, 2013

My dearest God,

You create us to be family.  You intend for us to live together as family in this world.  Some of us have wonderful families who honor and respect us, affirm and support us and challenge us to become the full persons you want us to be.  But some families are not like that.  They do not understand your will.  Without these qualities, they flounder, fail, and fall. They want to be family but for reasons sometimes even beyond themselves they cannot. Where there are cracks in family you fill in with yourself.  You send people to befriend us, to reach out, and to make us a sister or brother.  You give us opportunity for adoption.  You create us anew restoring our sense of equilibrium, therefore, making us family once again.

Loving God,
you are
Heavenly Father
to us all.
Your love
moves beyond
our paltry boundaries.
You love
us all equally.
Teach us how
to be
good sisters
and brothers
on this planet.
Continue to
fill our cracks
with yourself
so we
can begin
to look
and act
more and more
like you.

Love, Andrea