Saturday, May 14, 2016

Dear God,

Nature teaches us so many life lessons!  As I cleaned and cleared the large flower garden, I discovered many broken rose limbs.  These roses from the 1890's took a hard hit this winter.  It was sad to see.  However, as I continued to work, I found new shoots had shot up reaching toward the heavens.  How happy I was.

There was a life and death lesson among the roses. The old does die away but the new comes.  When the old is dying inside us, you remind us new life is coming.  You point to resurrection that comes out of the ashes of death. 

So often we want to hold on to the old, the dying, the broken, but you ask us to release all things into your hands.  You ask us to trust you, to surrender that which holds us back from the renewal you have planned for us.  In doing so, in letting go, in releasing the past, you begin to show us signs of new life.

Blessed Lord,
thank you
for lessons
that come
from nature.
Thank you
for spiritual renewal
that comes
when we
open our hearts
and release
what was
for what is
to come.
Thank you
for beautiful lessons
that renew
our faith.

Love, Andrea