Saturday, July 26, 2025

Dear God,

How do we ever get to the way of love?  How do we take our anger, hurt and resentment and turn it into love in action?  How do we say yes to you knowing we are very limited in our understanding, wisdom and knowledge?  How do we trust you enough to follow your will and your way?

It is so much easier to be angry than to love during very difficult times.  Anger keeps us, so we think, safe from further harm.  Anger gives us an extra layer of protection so we do not have to be hurt again.  But the truth is anger also keeps us from being healed.  When we hold on to pain and anger, we shut off doors and windows to the healing truth of your love and our own inner love established by you from the very beginning.  The further truth is we are in need of radical healing, the kind that not only cleanses the wound but heals it permanently.  So why am I resistant?  I want no more hurt.

What we need is a deeper trust in you, Ever-Healing God.  We need to remember you know more, you know what is best and you know what is good for us and our situation.  Trusting you unlocks the door to what we need most.  Most of all it opens us to your grace-filled love, support, understanding, help and healing.

O God,

we lack

so much faith.

I am guilty.

Yet, I 

want you more

than anyone

or anything else.

Help me follow

my own

inner voice

that reminds me

of this truth.

Thank you,

Loving and Compassionate God

for this wisdom today.

Yours, Andrea