Thursday, September 11, 2025

Dear God,

When my daughter was in labor on this very day twenty-one years ago, she said she didn't want to give birth on such a horrible day in our nation's history.  I told her it was the best day because life among death is always good.  We all cried when our special child was born.

It is possible to grieve death and celebrate life on the same day.  In fact, it is important to do just that!  Somewhere around us new life is coming while we grieve.  Such a gesture gives us hope and without hope, death has no meaning and new life comes as a stillbirth.

In so many ways and times you teach us there is more to life than we are experiencing at the moment.  In your love you reach out to us providing for us at the darkest and greatest times.  Death and life are intertwined and always will be.  This truth alone can help us, lift us and hold us because it always leads us back to you.

Thank you,

Holy God,

for all

life's lessons.

Teach us

to look beyond

the what 

we see

to what

is more

beneath it.

You are

always waiting

to meet us.

Yours, Andrea

.