Sunday, May 17, 2020

Dear God,

Praying is dangerous.  It calls for trust and trust calls for openness and openness calls for honesty and honesty leads us to listen and hear your voice.  Sometimes that process leads to a call for change.  A change in attitudes, beliefs, practices, behaviors and actions.  You call to our true self, that one that is most likely closer to who you have called us to be.

Today was one such day.  In the process of drawing close, I heard the call to bend my will, to lean toward you and to change.  As always I dropped my head realizing the call was right.  It was good.  It was what was needed.

How I wish I could live my life always bending and leaning toward you.  I want to be yours.  I want to live out of my true self, not a false one who whines because the world is not wrapped around me.  I want to live a pure life, an authentic one.  However, what I confess is true is that I simply do not have the will and strength to be changeable in the potter's hand.  I want to be.  Help me, please.

You are God,
the strength
and power
of human life.
You live
in us
and call us
to live
in you.
You made us.
As we
go about living,
changing who
we were
meant to be,
we lose
our way.
Help us,
all of us,
I pray.

Love, Andrea