Saturday, February 14, 2026

Dear God,

It seems in life we are always on a journey to somewhere.  For young children, they are on their way to growing up.  Teenagers can't wait to leave home for college and/or their independence.  As young people we can't wait to make our way to a great job, a partner for life, a new home.  And so it goes.

But there is another journey that is more invisible.  It is sometimes the journey to truth, to meaning, to understanding.  We step forward to love and friendship and affirmation.  Sometimes we simply want to start the journey home.  Often, it is a journey to our own self.

Such journeys can take us deep and wide, to unknown places and spaces high and low.  These are perhaps the most important journeys of our lives.  As I journey to my 80th birthday months from now, I realize I am on a big journey of detachment, surrender and movement that will lead me to where, I do not know.  What I do know is that one of the things I carry with me in my journeys is faith.

Lead me,

O God,

lead me

in your direction.

Open my eyes

that I 

will not miss

anything you

want to

show me.

Help me arrive

to that destination

that helps me

begin anew

all over again.

Yours, Andrea