Friday, July 8, 2016

Dear God,

Summer is a wondrous season!  As I look out my study window, I see maple, serviceberry, and star magnolia trees reaching for heaven.  I see purple Russian sage, peach-colored day lilies, and white daisies spreading out to give color.  I see blue spruce stretching out their branches in a contemplative garden.  I see peace there as a gentle breeze blows and every thing dances in the wind.

Each item in the garden brings its own kind of beauty to the whole.  Each one adds a gift to the rest.  They grow together providing a marvelous treasure all summer long.  As I sit at my desk I drink in the quiet calm the garden provides.

Sometimes the very thing we need is just outside our window.  Sometimes answers to our perplexing questions are right at our fingertips.  Always your love is reaching out to us!

Creator God,
thank you
for giving
us gifts
of your spirit.
Thank you
for the message
of summer,
life, hope,
beauty, and peace.
Thank you
for love
so deeply rooted
in the
human soul.

Love always, Andrea