I wrote my annual letter to God this morning.
Over the years, it has really become a thank-you note. I remember in my first letter to God I asked for an emerald ring...I remember because 35 years later I inherited an emerald ring. I'd forgotten I ever wanted one until I inherited it, and I had to grin...proof that my timetable and God's are waaay different...and His always wins.
Considering that I haven't asked for anything...any material thing...in a long, long time, it's mind-boggling how much I have had in 2012 to thank God for. I filled two pages with thanks...all of them important, none of them wearable, touchable, driveable (I once asked for a Mercedes, too...oh, great thought...wouldn't it be neat if my hearse were a Mercedes!).
Having spelled out many of my this year's reasons to be thankful, I am filled with such peace, such an inward feeling of security, of being loved, cared for, needed...ah, but more important, I'm just realizing, is my outward flowing feeling of all those things. It is St. Francis's prayer in my heart...it does feel better to seek to care for than to seek to be cared for.
God is so good to me.
Thank You.
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