Thursday, January 31, 2019

Dear God,

Life can be lived many ways.  We can live life as it comes, on the surface.  We can take in all that is around us, getting up in the morning and returning to bed at night.  Or we can live in the deep, finding a world so wide and high, one that sees a shimmering wonderfulness, where eternity is revealed, where hope is not just hope but hope with gratitude, joy with peace and faith with courage, strength and wisdom.  It is a rich life with you.

I confess often I live life alone.  I consider my own thoughts, desires, passions, hope and will.  I want my own way.  I want to direct my life and sometimes others.  I want what I want when I want it...so many I's.  I fail to live a rich, meaningful and purposeful life.  I end up with a half cup, never reaching the top, never tasting the full sweetness of life or breathing in a spirit so full of beauty, compassion and love.  I never fully receive the "good" life.

BUT when I recognize there is another world, full of grace, majestic wonderfulness and love like no other, I fall to my knees in praise and thanksgiving.  I walk through the door left open for me.  I see the breeze of your spirit blowing and feel the light of your love upon my face.  I breathe clean, pure air that refreshes like nothing else.  In the depths of my soul, I discover the meaning and joy of gratitude, one that continually says thank you and smiles with praise.  I meet you, you meet me and together we dance the dance of eternal life even in the present and it is good, so very, very good.

Thank you,
Wondrous God,
for all
your gifts.
How can
I adequately say
thank you?
How can
I live
giving witness
to your spirit
in the world?
I offer you
my love
and devotion,
now and forever.

Always yours, Andrea