Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Dear God,

Your ways are better than our own.  Your love is deeper than our own.  Your strength is greater than our own.

Every day we have the privilege of choosing your way over our own.  When we look to you, take your hand, and follow your lead, we are never disappointed.  We find spiritual treasures all along the way.

When our lives falter, when we stumble and fall, and when we grow dry and lifeless, so often it is because we do not choose your way.  When we fail to drink from your well first thing in the morning we go about our day parched and weak.  When we forget to pray, to connect with you, we don't pick up all the resources we need to live our day fully.  When we do not read your word, pause to contemplate, or give way to silence for you to speak, we do not adequately equip ourselves for a day of hope, peace, vision, wisdom, and service.

You give us wondrous opportunities to be close and to be strengthened and revitalized.  Why would we not choose your way?

Almighty God,
thank you
for standing
at the door
and knocking.
Thank you
for repeated chances
to follow
your way.
Thank you
for feeding us,
for inspiring us,
and for
leading us.

Love, Andrea