Monday, September 5, 2022

Dear God,

I can hardly to stand to hear the news.  Mass shootings, violence in the streets, political chaos, threats and suffering all say we are failing to live up to the life you want to provide for us.  It is a reminder of our failure to be human, loving and compassionate.  It means we have lost or given away our ability to listen, understand and welcome.  Our feet are no longer flesh but made of concrete stuck right where we are in our desire to be right all the time wanting to make others bend to our way of thinking.  We forget we were never made to be gods.

We forget who made us, who loved us into existence, who walks beside us, whispers to us and reaches out to lead, teach and give.  We push aside all those gifts that transform us allowing us to let go of all that holds us back, keeps us down and makes us ugly, mean-spirited and unbending.  We grab hold of power to wield it over others.  We forget we are children of the Living God.

Let the rain

of your love

fall down

upon us,

Loving God.

Cleanse us

from every sin

that keeps us bound.

Release us

from our

foolish, foolhardy ways.

Make us new

once again,

I pray.

Love, Andrea