Monday, August 19, 2013

Dear God,

Love comes in many packages but I believe it always originates with you.  As I consider the gifts of food, calls, visitation, and prayers, I realize more and more the depths of your compassionate mercy.

We have been recipients of your love, my husband and I.  Much more accustomed to giving rather than receiving, sometimes we are uncomfortable; yet, I realize that part of grace is to be a loving receiver.  What if I do not willingly receive gifts that come our way?  What does that say about me?  What does it reveal about my relationship to you and others?

Humility is learned as we bow down before you, as we allow you to touch our lives through those around us. Humility is not something to be disregarded but something to be exchanged for our need to control our own situations.  As we give away, surrender our will to control, we receive not only the gift but the blessing of humility and what is humility but sitting at your feet saying thank you.

O Lord,
giver of life,
thank you
for life lessons,
for unexpected gifts,
for gracious love.

Love, Andrea