Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Dear God,

I sit with Mother Teresa every morning.  I listen to her innermost thoughts as she writes in her book entitled, Come Be My Light.  She begged to have her letters destroyed so people would focus on Jesus not her.  In some ways I feel guilty reading her intimate thoughts knowing she would never have written them if she thought others would some day read them.  But her letters do not bring me just to think of her.  Rather her faith stretches me to the One she loved most, Jesus.

I am so very grateful to hear the thoughts of this saint.  I let her words sit with me, chiding, challenging and provoking me.  I need her words, her faith and her challenge to be everything for Jesus.

I really do not want to go to the grave with the teeny faith I hold.  I want to trust more, give more and serve more.  What holds me back from offering everything, O God?  I will never be a saint.  I am sorry.

Holy God,

move me

to your side.

Help me

love you more

and the 

world less.

I want

to be yours,

all of me.

Show me

the way,

I pray.

Love, Andrea