Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Dear God,

When I reflect upon my life, I can see places where I hung around too long, those periods where I felt stuck by psychological and emotional loss, pain and grief.  One place was for 27 years.  I was bitter and resentful.  But last week through a series of other losses, I suddenly felt relief from the past.  I let go of the bag of emotional stuff that had weighed me down.  I not only felt better; I was enabled to reach out to the central figure who had created the issues.  In some ways it was a miracle.

Henri Nouwen, one of my favorite authors, reminds us we are on a pilgrimage, not a chronological timeline.  I realize now I have been on a pilgrimage, on my way somewhere else where beauty, hope, peace, love and acceptance reside.  I just spent too long in one place.  Freed up from all that, I am on the move again right where you are leading me.

Thank you,

Gracious God,

for insights

of the body,

mind and soul.

Thank you

for taking 

up residence

within me

even while

I was misplaced.

Thank you

for the nudge

to move on.

Yours, Andrea