Sunday, March 29, 2015

Dear God,

There is a sweetness in your mercy!  For a year and a half I have not felt at home in your church.  As a minister of the gospel myself I never thought I would feel that way.  But painful situations in the church where we served a good long time somehow drained my soul of connection to your living church.  For months we searched for a place to call home.

This morning as I entered the sanctuary with other choir members I felt a strange stirring in my heart.  When we stood to sing our Easter cantata, I felt a drawing closeness.  I sang my faith accepting every word as my own.  When we fellowshipped in the choir room between services, I looked at the people in the room, those singers who drew me in, and I began to feel that acceptance.  By the time I drove home, I realized something was beginning to change in me.

Your mercy can change us, melt our hearts, and make us your own.  How thankful I am to know you as the loving change agent in your church.

Holy Father,
thank you
for making me
your child,
for including me,
and for
making me
a home
in which
to live,
love and serve.
I am
so very grateful.

Love, Andrea