Sunday, August 18, 2024

Dear God,

There is no time to be with you like right now, this very moment.  In the quiet, we can hear your heartbeat.  We can feel your living presence.  We do not have to be something more than what we are at this moment.  In rags, in sin or in doubt, we can still enter into your presence knowing love will meet us there.

Throughout history we have heard messages about how perfect we have to be in order to call upon your name.  Yet, these messages have been wrong because just as the prodigal son wanted desperately to come back home but his life was in shambles, his father ran toward him and embraced him full body.  Smelly, lost and full of sin, his father wept just to have his boy home.  It's like that for us with a God like you.

Thank you,

Father,

for the

wondrous gift

of your

loving acceptance.

We know

we are 

not perfect.

We are

not yet

out of sin

but we long

to find

our way

to you.

Thank you

for meeting us

more than halfway.

Yours, Andrea