Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Dear God,

Although I knew the healing process of a total knee replacement would be difficult, I did not fully understand the height, width, and depth of your compassionate love during this time.  I did not know the many ways you would choose to make yourself known.

Just days after my surgery I felt discouraged.  The medicine distorted my world completely taking away my ability to eat or taste, robbed me of life-giving sleep, and opened me to an alternative world which kept me restless and listless.  As I felt the powerful drugs trying to do their job of reducing pain, I realized our time spent together in devotion, song, and prayer in Advent was far deeper inside me than this temporary assault on my body, mind, and spirit.  Throughout the day, snippets of those prized moments rose to the top of my mind and I drank in your spirit for courage, hope, and peace.

Blessed God,
thank you
for the medicine
of faith.
Thank you
for its power
to heal
and to help.
Thank you
for sacred spaces
made by
your holy word.

Love, Andrea