Friday, September 10, 2021

Dear God,

Sometimes we shorten your hand limiting what you can do. I don't know why or understand others or myself.  Perhaps we forget who is God and who is not, who has the power and who does not and who knows more and who does not.

You work your miracles your way.  You can create miracles any number of ways.  It is not just one way or another although that is all we can see.

When the coronavirus came to us, we did not want it to touch us.  Our political leaders, at least some, used it for political purposes making masks, shut downs and vaccines controversial.  As a result people have grown sick refusing to be vaccinated and they have died.

When we pray and listen to you, we must know there is always more than we know.  Like St. Paul, " we only see in part."  Yet, you, O God, see fully.  When we pray, we only want to deal with the part we see.  In doing so, we lose out on so much more.

My beloved cousins decided against vaccinations.  Now one of them is dying in the hospital because they did not trust the science which is one more way a miracle can occur.  Larry will die like so many others, needlessly.  I am so sad.

Merciful God,

show us

the way back

to you.

Teach us

to fall

at your knees,

listening, waiting,

being patient.

Lead us,

O God; 

forgive us

when we

want to

lead you.

Love, Andrea