God and Me

I woke up at 5:50 A.M. this morning and I was wide awake. At first I was thinking "What the heck am I doing up this early?" but it was so quiet and peaceful; I decided that it was a good thing to be up this early in the morning. I opened up my email and started reading "Girlfriends In God" and I knew why I was up so early. Today's message was about "eating crow," but the another part of her blog resonated more with me. Many of us are asking God what more can we do for Him when we should understand that He wants to do more for us. Not that we should ever stop doing things that He asks of us, but we should also keep in mind that He wants to help us, too. According to Sharon Jaynes, some of us ache for a closer relationship with God, but we may be going about it the wrong way. I think this idea is "food for thought:" She has written a book entitled "Sudden Awakening" in which she speaks of a "glory ache" which speaks to the feeling of wanting to be closer to God.

In my faith walk and because of a simple act suggested by Oprah Winfrey and the reminder of that act by a close friend, I found my way to closeness with my God by simply by being grateful. In the act of being grateful, I found the true and heavy meaning of "Let Go and Let God." There is no end to all of which I am grateful and there is no end to the constant struggle between my spiritual self and my temporal self in giving all that I encounter good or bad to God. At times, the gap between God and me is so narrow until it is possible to believe it is no longer there. However, there are moments, I feel the separation start to appear; it is at that point that I become more prayerful. At the end of the day, in the quiet between moments, you will find God and me in spiritual conversation. In that space and time, the world does not exit; we are spirit to spirit.

Have you taken a moment to give thanks to your Higher Power today?

I thank God:
- for His presence in my life
- for accepting my prayers of gratefulness
- for the much needed rain
- for sunshiny days
- for being in my life and taking care of me
- for not forgetting about me

For me God is my Higher Power; for others of you it may be very different. No matter what, give some thought to how you can walk a bit closer to it, to be not separate, but a living, breathing part of it. Have a wonderful day!

Namaste

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." Mother Teresa