Monday, June 4, 2013

My dearest God,

Thank you for the gift of family who makes my heart beat fast and my soul fill up with love.  It's been more than five weeks since I left home in Indiana for home in Maine.  Although I am delighted to return to the coast to spend time worshiping at our church, sharing in fellowship with friends, and working in my living sanctuary, I miss my family, my children and grandchildren.  And so happy to say, they miss me too.  But tonight they drove in about 10:30 p.m. and my hubby and I ran outside with our lobster hats on.  I threw my arms around each of my granddaughters and I kissed and squeezed them over and over again.

There is just something so sweet about family.  They know our flaws but love us anyway.  They reach for us when sometimes we are just unreachable.  When our hearts get stopped up by life issues, family restart them for us.  When we are cold and lost, they remind us where and who we are and they warm the blood in our veins.  They embrace us in a way no one else can.  Family renews my faith in you because I realize how valuable their gift is.

Being part of your family is greater yet.  When I am enabled to sing I'm so glad I'm a part of the family of God, I confess the mystical wonder of the connection between the divine and the human, between the two of us, you and I and I fill with great joy.  Tonight I am full to overflowing.

Gracious God,
thank you
for gifts
too spectacular
to describe.
Thank you
for love
that draws us
in and
never lets us go.

Love, Andrea