PrayingWithMyFingers

Good afternoon!  How are You?  It has been a really long time between visits.  I hope it’s ok that I’ve kind of been taking You for granted lately.  Isn’t it what You want after all?  For us to have such faith in You that we stop trying so hard to get Your love and just accept it?  Unfortunately, that’s not really the reason I haven’t shown up.
As You know, my last letter, “Roadblocks,” was during Lent and I was whining about the difficulty of change.  Now, weeks later, I am …

Dear God,
Day 2 of the Lenten season.  My daily readings include, Lent & Easter – Wisdom from Thomas Merton, Bread & Wine – Readings for Lent and Easter (multiple authors), and “The Lenten Pharmacy – Daily Healing Therapies,” by Edward Hays.  I try to discern a nugget from each reading and hope I’ll remember to apply something from the readings to my day.
Merton’s writing from Seasons of Celebration speaks to, “the acceptance of one’s actual condition.”  This is something that strikes a deep chord within me and a nugget that …

Dear God,
It is 8:45pm, Ash Wednesday.  The day has been long.  I am exhausted.  After all, I was up at 4am!  I do love Your sense of humor though.  I remember my last prayer of the night being “help me,” because I was worried about oversleeping and missing the 7am church service.  So, You used the puppies to wake me – earlier than I thought I needed but did my Lenten devotions and meditation and got to the church on time!
I have felt so grateful all day because I see …

January 17 – January 25, 2010
Dear God,
It seems as if recent events are converging to force me to deal with issues that I thought were dead and buried.  The Haiti earthquake has reminded me that I never processed my trip to Haiti in 2001.  Ed’s diagnosis of lung cancer put that on the back burner where it has not resurfaced until now.  Ed’s death was the next big event which needed processing but, I put that on the back burner by dabbling with a very bad relationship (less than six …

Dear God,
Again today I discover how much energy I am lacking.  I am prohibited from “heavy lifting,” and all I have been doing is laundry and trying to tidy up the house before leaving for Tallahassee.  Apparently, this is still a little bit too much because by late afternoon I felt as if a tiny limb of sorts was pushing in my abdomen….similar to the baby foot or hand during pregnancy.  I still have to do the travel packing and get all that in the car.  These simply things feel …

Dear God,
I am experiencing some kind of post-surgery sluggishness.  Although I was up by 8am, it took me the full two hours to get dressed and out the door to the 10am meeting with Workforce Development.  After the meeting, I went to Walgreens to find cough medicine as my chest cold is hanging on for dear life.  The between meetings hour and half was topped off with McDonalds lunch in Sarasota county parking lot.  Then 4+ hours of listening to the annual parade of government officials and other seekers of …