Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Dear God,

This morning as I listened to St. Teresa of Avila, St. Charles de Foucauld and St. Bernadette of Lourdes, I realized you call us to yet greater heights and deeper depths of faith.  What resides in us now is but a tiny seed but with spiritual water and food, that seed can become a great oak within us.  Why would we settle for a seed when we can become a tree and treasure of faith?

Every time I hear the saints as they speak during my devotional time, I learn so much.  I realize how small I am and in need of humility and faith.  I recognize their sacrifice and longing and I look inside myself and know that I want more of you.  Not because I want to hoard the gifts of faith but because I can be strengthened from the inside out to become more for others, strangers, neighbors, friends, family, all who need more too.

As I lean in to those whose prayers live on and on, I know you are more and more and so I pray and lean forward that I may reach those places just beyond where I am now.

Thank you,

dear God,

for your

amazing grace

and gracious love.

Thank you

for my

spiritual friends

who you

have brought

into my life.

Teach me

their ways

and yours,

I pray.

Love, Andrea