Saturday, October 1, 2016

Dear God,

October 1, how can it be October 1?  Days, weeks, months, and years fly by and I wonder how I can be 70 years old.

Life seems so fleeting.  The past is an array of experiences, good, bad, miraculous, surprising, and hard.  Yet, no one holds the past like you, Great God.  You are the only one who has walked through life with us.  You have seen every day.  You know us like no other.

As I look at this day, I do know I have been blessed.  Among all I have been given family, a ministry, friends, homes, and so many gifts I cannot count, the greatest of all these over all my 70 years is the gift of a spiritual awareness of your living, loving presence in the world.  Every day I walk with you.  Sometimes it is a straight path but more often than not, I walk up the mountain and down the valley.  I make wrong turns and U turns.  I fall off the edge but your great big hand catches me.  My earliest memories are of you.  You have always been there with me.

Holy God,
thank you
for leading me
and then
following me
when I make
stupid moves.
Please forgive
my tardiness
in turning back
to you.
May I spend
the rest
of my years
blessing you.

Love, Andrea