Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Dearest God,

This morning when I sat down with the psalmist his words leapt off the page.  "He (God) has set me free from all my fears."  That set me thinking of many fears from which you have set me personally free.  When I think of them, I am reminded how you came to me, whispered your calm assuring words and I grabbed hold of your promises.

Like when I was ready to fly on an airplane for a vacation and a person told me they had dreamed of me the night before on a plane with flames all around me.  Or when my blood pressure was well over stroke level, my head exploding with pain and I was over an hour from a hospital and had to pick up a handful of people from a monastery up a mountain in rural, isolated New Mexico where they had no phone.  When my daughter was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and my teenaged granddaughter had to have emergency surgery for a large hole in her heart.  I could go on and on.  Every time you came and breathed your spirit into me.  You took away my fear.  You empowered, emboldened and enabled me to trust you for my precarious situation.

This morning I simply celebrated and gave thanks!

Loving God,

you are full

of mercy.

You pour

your mercy

upon us

comforting and

healing us.

You speak words

of hope 

and love

and strength.

You are God;

no one else

can do

what you do.

Love, Andrea