Sunday, January 27, 2019

Dear God,

In my reading today, I thought about water and how much it is like faith.  Water can be clear, pure, warm, flowing freely.  It can be cold, frozen, immovable.  Or something in between.

When faith is open, trusting and free, it can flow, remove obstacles and keep clear and clean.  When faith is not open, it can become murky, sludge-like and almost like concrete.  When that happens it is hard to crack open a space for you.  Hope falls away. Peace dies. Fear, anger and resentment can take up residence.

When I reflect upon both images, water freely flowing and water frozen in place, I know what makes for peace, clarity and joy.

You are God.
You invite us
to streams
of living water.
You want
to clear us
and clean us
so your spirit
may easily move
in our lives.
Forgive us
when we
shut off
the faucet
and forget
who made
the water
in the
first place.
There is none like you.

Love, Andrea