Thursday, January 12, 2017

Dear God,

Every morning joy meets me as I sit with composers of the past.  Their trials and subsequent amazing hymns speak to me of faith, trust, and courage.  To dwell with them, their complexities, and their extraordinary gifts is a gift from on high.  As I listen to their story, I celebrate their faith and devotion to you, Wondrous God.

Sometimes we dwell when I sit in the light but other times, I enter their story from the back side, the dark side, the lonely side, the confused side.  Each and every time I discover you there and joy wells up within me.

I don't know how such things happen, I just know they do.  I also know they connect us together in beautiful ways.  I celebrate their faith and in some strange way, their music causes a greater celebration because we are able to join a much larger celebration and I am grateful to be drawn in.

God of grace,
thank you
for the
mysterious gifts
you bring
to us.
Thank you
for linking
the past,
present and future
together.
Thank you
for making faith
wide and deep.

Love, Andrea