Friday, March 25, 2022

Dear God,

This morning after devotions and just before prayer, I looked out the windows of my study.  What I saw caused a smile to spread across my face.  Outside was what I lovingly call a "blue moment."  It is the time just after darkness and before the light of day.  The sky moves from black to blue to white and then changes based on weather conditions.  However, the blue moment is an exquisite moment because it is the transition time of nature, the "almost gone, not yet" time of the day.  The blue moment gives me pause to give thanks for all the gifts of nature.  

But the blue moment is more than that for me.  It is a reminder of how you work.  You who made the darkness and the light have inspired each to do their holy part in creation.  Each has so many gifts.  Although many do not like the darkness, what would the stars and moon be like without darkness? And the light, well, it shines upon all shades, colors and textures of earth.

We too have blue moments when you call us to move, shift from what was to what is to be, from darkness of doubt to the light of faith.  In that tiny, fleeting space of time, there is a rare beauty when your divine presence seems so very present.  We cannot live there full time because we must let go and take hold of what is coming but we can linger and give thanks.

Holy God,

you bless us

with so

many holy moments.

Remind us

to open

the whole

of our self

to the whole

of you

so we

do not 

miss anything.

Thank you

for the beauty

of this morning.

Love, Andrea