Saturday, July 27, 2019

My dearest God,

When we are filled with sorrow, anger, despair, loss and hopelessness, we sink and fall to the ground.  We are heavy, burdened down.  We can sometimes hardly move.  However, when we fill up with your spirit, your hope, your mercy and grace, your love and your power, we fill to overflowing such that we are buoyed up almost like we can lift off and soar on the breeze of your spirit.

We live in the in-between, O Lord.  We can fall or rise.  We have a choice, dear God, to rise or fall.  Sometimes it is so difficult we think we do not possess the power to rise.  And many times we do not but when we allow you to fill us with the "stuff" of heaven, courage and strength begin to stream in and we feel that sacred buoyance only you can give.  Things start to change.  Metamorphosis takes place transforming us.

I have seen it happen so many, many times.  I have experienced that power myself.  I know it to exist.  I know the strength of its power to change us.  This is what you want to do for us, dearest God.  You want us to trust you to fill us, to lift us, to take our burden from us, to change us and to make us powerful.  You want to show us your love for us.

Take us,
O God,
take us
in your hands.
Remake us.
Take away
our sorrow
and pain.
Reshape us
for today
and tomorrow
and all
our tomorrows.
Give us desire
to trust,
praise and
give thanks.

Love always, Andrea