Thursday, June 22, 2023

Dear God,

There are so many ways you choose to renew and restore us.  If we anticipate daily your Holy Spirit movement, we can find ways where you show us the way.

This week I have been working on an antique hall tree for my spiritual hermitage.  I had to buy some WD40 oil to loosen a rusted screw on the bottom.  I also had to wash down the entire tree ridding it of years of cobwebs, dust and dirt.  I plan to stain it, clean the brass coat holders and oil the entire stand when it is finished.  In this whole process I think of the ways the coat stand is being transformed from a dirty, scratched, tarnished hall tree to a beautifully renovated coat stand.  Although it is a simple stand, it is providing a way to understand how it is you renovate and refresh us.

Thank you,

O God,

for the 

antique coat stand

that is

the teacher

for today's

life lesson.

Thank you

for reminding us

that we too

need restoration

and renewal.

Do your work

on us,

dear God,

I pray.

Love, Andrea