Friday, August 11, 2023

Dear God,

The invisible becomes the visible with faith.  When hope seems lost and despair fills our innermost cavity, allowing your living presence to enter through prayer, meditation or thought brings the breath of your spirit to us.  As we close our eyes and breathe in your spirit, something happens.  Maybe it is peace or truth or an insight.  What seemed impossible moments before becomes possible in the NOW.

While we do not always get what we want when we want it, faith moves us to patient waiting, hope in your presence and renewed energy to keep moving and believing.  We realize we do not wait alone.  We do not face our situation by our self.  We do not have to trust in our self only.  You are with us.  You care about us.  You care about our situation.

So often we lose hope because we want instant answers.  In this life "instant" rarely occurs.  We may get instant coffee or instant television or instant hot water but meaningful, purposeful answers do not come instantly.  There are always hidden gifts in waiting, in trusting and in faithing!  Faithing is a word because faith involves action, yours and ours.  When our answer comess, we will have more than we bargained for.

Holy, Living God,

thank you

for every gift

that comes

when we trust

in you

and wait.

Forgive us

when we

are impatient.

Remind us

how faith

can transform us,

strengthening us

for every problem

that comes.

Love, Andrea