Sunday, May 4, 2014

Dear God,

Being in your home with the company of the committed warms my soul, clears my mind, and renews my spirit!  What can I say?  I love being with you and your friends!

As we sang songs of faith, the melodies and harmonies lifted me high and the lyrics refreshed my beliefs and strengthened my faith.  I believe you placed within me an ability to appreciate music on so many levels that even when I am not singing, your song is being sung inside me.

All during the worship service I felt the lively movement of your spirit.  I sensed your living presence among the smiles of all who entered the doors of the church.  As I listened to the beatitudes and stood to receive Holy Communion, I experienced the living faith I received as a ten-year-old girl when I was immersed in the waters of Holy Baptism.  This morning as the preacher shared the message of Brother Roger in the community of Taize, France, I relived my time there and the miracle of receiving my voice back after a botched surgery on my thyroid flooded my mind.  I remembered so well standing in the tiny chapel near his grave and feeling the passionate desire to sing and so I did.  I sang "Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.  I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see."

All glory
is owed
to you,
Wondrous and Loving God.
I am
so grateful
to be counted
as one
of your own.
I am blessed;
let me
bless you,
Holy God,
with love,
faith, and thanksgiving.

Always, Andrea