Saturday, May 10, 2014

Dear God,

Nicks, scrapes, missed places, and bad paint all describe the downstairs bathroom.  Today I began the process of renovating a botched bathroom.

Redoing the bathroom is calling me to redo parts of my life.  I have some of the same ailments as my bathroom.  Although it is fairly easy to remodel my bathroom, it is not as simple to renovate my life.

Several years ago in the spiritual exercise of a lifetime, you told me change was simple.  Through a series of visions you took me to a grocery store and told me I could pick out anything I wanted for a new life.  As I pushed my cart and looked on the shelves, I found such things as grace, faith, hope, and beauty.  You also said I could put anything on the shelves that I had carried with me into the store like judgment, arrogance, and self righteousness.  As I moved from one aisle to another and stood in the check out lane, I looked at all my items and realized I liked what I had left behind and what I was taking home.  When we stepped outside into the parking lot, you shared with me that change is uncomplicated when by faith we surrender one thing for something better.

Teach me again
how to become
a changeable person,
Compassionate God.
I want
to become
more like you.

Love, Andrea