Today is Friday, May 14th, 2004; Karen's Korner #295

Allow me to share a prayer which I wrote several months ago. (I am unsure when today's Karen's Korner will be delivered, as we are having telephone problems):

 

 

 

Dear Lord,

 

Today I took several piles of items out of our storeroom and put everything on our burn pile. Next I loaded a bag of garbage on top of that.

 

When I tried to start the fire, the papers I was attempting to burn were nice and flat. The edges of some envelopes were on top of the papers. I attempted to get them burning, but the items would burn and then go out.

 

I had no choice but take some of the items and wade them up. More edges; more places to burn. It didn’t take long until I had a blazing bonfire.

 

I wondered about my life, Lord, as I watched. Do I like it best when everything is going smoothly. But when you attempt to light a fire in my spirit, do I smolder around the edges and then go out because of a lack of interest or focus?

 

When situations or circumstances come into my life that causes me to be crinkled, do I have more surfaces to be ignited by Your fire? And when I am squished next to a few friends and acquaintances who are also crinkled, do we catch a bigger blaze of You and Your Love than we would have had, if life situations hadn’t have waded us up and scrunched us together?

 

Help me, Lord, not to pray for only smooth sailing and flat circumstances. Help me to look at, and for, You and for Your Spirit and fire. Help me to know that when things come into my life that gives me more edges than I would choose, the light of You will spark a blaze in me and with all of the people with whom I come in contact. Together we can add Light, Love and Fire into each of our lives and the lives of others.

 

In Your Name Who sets us ablaze like nothing else we can imagine. Amen


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