Saturday, January 5, 2019

Dear God,

Yesterday you circled four people together who only every few years get together but suddenly there we were for hours.  Very quickly we realized this was your work.  It was your doing and how good it was.

My cousin and I are a thousand miles apart politically.  We are different in a number of ways.  However, yesterday you showed us the ways we are alike.  You increased our awareness of one another.  You grew our love, respect and appreciation for one another.  You showed us the ways we have been wounded through the years.  You gave us the same language to speak.  We knew you were present in the room.

At one point two of our family members walked into the sunny garden room and that left just my cousin and me together.  We moved into the depths and spoke from there for nearly an hour.  We shared our pain but also our victories through faith.  We spoke of you, of your healing power and great love.  We gave thanks and praise and glory only to you.  You filled us with joy, so much joy.

Only you
can make possible
what we
might consider impossible.
Only you
can take
broken hearts
and heal them.
Only you
can restore love
for one another.
Only you,
Lord,
only you.

Love, Andrea