Sunday, September 3, 2023

Dear God,

Some trees are beginning to turn color.  It is early but with climate change, what can we expect?

As the weather wreaks havoc with storms, wildfires and floods, it is a call to draw near to you.  It is a challenge to listen for that call and come running to you, to leave everything behind and look straight ahead.  Sometimes it is terrifying.  We can hardly breathe but there is no one who can help us more than you.

The call for change is here right now.  We can no longer go on the way we always have.  We have to be ready to change, to be transformed, to leave behind yesterday's way for a new beginning.  However, this is where the rub comes in.  We want to cling to yesterday.  We don't want to grab for tomorrow.  Yet, this is exactly what you are whispering to us.  Surrender, you say, let go, trust me.

Teach us

your ways,

O Lord.

There is

no better way

to go.

Thank you

for always

meeting us

where we are

and taking us

where we need

to go.

Yours, Andrea