Friday, June 13, 2025

Dear God,

On this gray, rainy day there is no one I want to spend time with more than you.  These early morning conversations always give me joy.  As raindrops slide down the windows, I am warm inside sitting with you.

Over the course of 20 years, we have shared this prized time.  This particular time came as a result of a Lilly Clergy Renewal Grant awarded to my church and me in 2005.  Entitled, What Will Make My Heart Sing?, I responded with my narrative A Journey with God.  During those three and a half months traveling first to New Mexico and then to France, Italy, England and Ghana, I ended the renewal leave in Maine.  

Each day I sat down wherever I found myself and could find an internet connection and wrote you a letter, always from the heart, filled with gratitude for every gift, grace and discovery.  You and I were sweet together as we experienced so much every single day.  We traveled to spend time with St. Francis of Assisi, Michaelangelo, St. Terese of Lisieux and many others.  I was overwhelmed with spiritual wonders, gracious insights, pearls of wisdom, surprise visits and rare gems of faith.  Every day through these special intimate moments we spoke and listened sharing so many marvelous things.  Indeed, my heart sang like it never sang before.  I will always cherish those moments keeping them close to my heart.

Thank you,

Loving God,

for gifts

beyond measure.

Thank you

that we 

still have

these moments

day after day.

Thank you

for this

rainy morning

where I

am thinking

of you.

Love always, Andrea