Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Dear God,

Show us the way, the many ways we can help one another!  When I think about human suffering either from Gaza City, Ukraine, Russia, Sudan and Minnesota, just to name a few, I ask myself what we can do to help one another.  I know we can pray and send donations but how can we ever bring peace to all those who are hurting.  Your answer always seems to be love one another. Love one another as I have loved you.  When we really reflect upon this, we come to realize it means a change of heart, a way of being and an affirmation of life for everyone not just a few.   

While we can reach out across continents or states to help, the deeper and wider way of loving one another means to love the next-door neighbor, the annoying person in the check-in line and the person most unlike our self.  We aren't mandated to love those most lovable but those who are most unlovable.  That is not always easy.  In fact, it can be extremely difficult; yet, because you do it, you invite us to do it too.

Dear God,

we want

to love others

but when

they hurt us,

it is 

almost impossible.

Clear our head,

our hurts

and our pain,

dear One;

lead us

to change

the world

with love.

We are desperate

for a 

new way.

Love, Andrea