Thursday, July 30, 2015

Dear God,

I have a routine in the morning.  After prayers I get up, straighten up the whole house, start the laundry and dishwasher, wash the kitchen counter, weigh myself, and then I sit down to write.  I did so just this morning but as I was sitting down, I wondered if my thoughts would be different if I wrote with everything left undone.

It seems we often see life through a known frame.  Every day in the same way, mostly, we see life unfold.  We perceive and do things the same way day after day.  Although life can throw kinks into our predictable cycles, still we work to keep life stable and manageable in the same old way.  But what if we changed?  What if we opened the door differently?  What if we asked you to de-stable us so you could stabilize us in a new way?

When cobwebs begin to grow in my spiritual, emotional, and physical life, I know I need a change.  I need a shakeup.  I need to renew my vow to grow and be transformed.  I need to let you do your creative work in my life.  I need to let go and allow you to show me another way, a better way, a blessed way.

O God,
teach me
to turn
to you
for wise counsel.
Help me
to hold life loosely
so I
will not decay
over time.
Show me
the way
to you. 

Love, Andrea