Sunday, August 4, 2024

Dear God,

How does one have faith?  How can we apply our faith daily?  How can faith lead us to you?

When I was a little girl sleeping on my grandmother's living room floor for a sleepover, it was a dark, dark night on the farm but the stars were so bright.  I don't know what compelled me to ask my favorite cousin who was two years older about God but she was quick to tell me to look up into the sky.  In the quiet it seemed as if God was not only in the stars but God was the stars.

Since that time daily I think about you first thing in the morning and then I look for signs of your presence all day long.  I am never disappointed.  I see you in the sunrise, in the birdsong, in the snow, the rain and the storm.  I see you in a smile, a hug and in kind gestures.  I see you in the laughter and the tears.  In faith I see you everywhere all day long.  When night begins to fall, I return to the sky and see the stars and remember.

Majestic God,

thank you

for your

living presence

in all things.

Thank you

for beginning

your day

with me.

Thank you

for reminding me

to look up,

look around

and look down

in in 

all these,

I find you.

Yours forever, Andrea