Thursday, August 23, 2018

Dear God,

How can it be that good things can grow and stay alive when they are hidden by so much bad stuff?  As my friend and I cleared and cleaned the wooded area near the river, it was unbelievable to find so many beautiful ferns and sedium growing underneath.  While we rested I watched the ferns dance in the wind.  How beautiful, they must have thought, to have so much freedom to move about.

The spiritual life is like that too, isn't it, dearest God?  We all have so many good qualities, hopes, dreams, beliefs and promises hidden among our sins, mistakes and flaws.  Only when we work with you to clear and clean can we discover them.

Thank you
for today's
spiritual lesson
in the woods.
Thank you
for teaching us
through nature.
Thank you
for gifts
that comes
when we
least expect them.

Love, Andrea