Friday, June 28, 2019

Dear God,

This morning they brought in the stone.  This afternoon the lumber arrived.  The prayers started a few years ago.  The spiritual hermitage is in process.

A whisper, a vision, a dream, that's the way the spiritual path began. Twelve years ago I stood in the small back room of our home when I heard a voice.  Intuitively I knew it was yours.  That was the day the whisper came.  The vision and the dream came later right on time.

Today an insight came.  None of it is mine.  Although it is on our property, it is not mine, not even my husband's.  I realize I/we can't call it ours because it is yours.  The path is yours.  The hermitage will be yours.  The landscape is yours.  The river, plants and trees, they all belong to you.  While I have been a partner, I have been the lesser partner.  I have done the work with a few friends but I don't own it.

There is a great temptation to take credit, to want accolades and to claim something as your own.  We do it all the time.  But the path, the hermitage, from the beginning I have always known it was yours.  It was your idea, your call, your challenge, your earth, your creation, your air, your picture.  All of it.  I have just had the joy of working beside you.

Blessed are you,
Mighty and Everlasting God.
Thank you
for the
wondrous blessing
of creating
and working
on your path.
What a journey
it has been.
Working with you
has been
one of
my life's
greatest joys.
Thank you.

Love always, Andrea