Thursday, May 11, 2023

Dear God,

Today for the first time I saw what you saw 20 years ago!  I could not believe it!  It is so beautiful!

All those years ago as I stood in the back room looking out across the huge yard to the woods all I could see was a thicket of tall invasive plants, scrap trees and several kinds of debris.  But then in a small, quiet voice I heard a whisper, "That is the opening to the spiritual path."  Spiritual path?  I thought to myself.  What spiritual path?

Although I had no idea what, how, when and where a spiritual path was to be created, I took out a shovel, rake and some hand tools and I began digging.  For five years all I did was dig, cut, prune, pull and rip out in the dirt.  As time wore on, I simply followed your leading by clearing, ridding the path of car parts, pipes, broken glass, rusty barbed wire, and cleaning a dirt path through the woods.  A couple, three friends helped rake leaves, pull weeds, cut down invasive plants and trees, plant flowers and clear the way to amazing beauty.  And today as we raked and cleared, saw the countless flowers rising up from the ground and witnessed how the path had unfolded through all the plantings, I could not help but remember our earliest days, yours and mine when you pointed to a place where I was to begin.  

There never was a master plan, simply a voice and a shovel.  Now I can see where you said plant and we planted, cleared where you said clear and cleaned where you said clean.  I see what you saw and now it is nearly finished.  Praise be to God!

Holy, holy, holy

are you,

God Most High.

Thank you

for your

early words

to begin

a holy work.

Thank you

for the blessing

of allowing me

and my friends

to help you

create your

spiritual path.

What a wonder!

What a blessing!

What a joy!

Yours forever, Andrea