Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Dear God,

Only love can save us.  Hatred, bitterness and selfishness will never aid us in our difficulties.  But where can we look for the kind of love that is authentic, beautiful and unconditional?  Only with you, only you, Gracious God, can rescue us from pain, loss, fear and despair.

But we must be real and honest.  There are those who paint a picture of you as judging, condemning, preferential, absent and unaccommodating.  However, usually they are those who want to portray you as one who loves their kind, their belief, their understanding, their practice and their way.  They try to lord over people acting more powerful and all-knowing.  But you, O God, are not like them.  You are God; there is none like you.  No one loves like you.  No one understands like you.  No one is perfect like you.  When you said to come to you like little children, you meant it.  We can come dirty, broken, confused, lost and despairing and you will receive us giving us ointment for our wounds, water for our thirstiness, food for our hunger, help in our lostness and love for our brokenness.  Only you.  Only you.

We forget

that you

know us,

dear God.

We forget

who you

really are.

Show us

the way

to you God.

Open your arms

so we

can come running.

Love, Andrea