This morning I sit at my desk and the sky is overcast. This is fitting, I think, since that is where my being is at this moment. It is a place that we all find ourselves from time to time on this journey of life. Things happen over which we have no control and we are left feeling frustrated, angry, questioning, empty, sad, wondering and the list could go on. It can be a trying time and some find that their faith is tested. While faith might be tested I must say that I can’t imagine what it would be like living life without that faith. To know that even when I am at my lowest there is an energy and Spirit that will hold me, cry with me, and help be regain my strength makes the journey easier somehow. I don’t fully understand it but I know this sacred mystery to be true. The disciples recall that Jesus says “Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest”. I am so thankful for that place of rest and the love that is there always!
The Garden of Prayer
One of my favourite old hymns is “ The Beautiful Garden of Prayer”. This past weekend as I was driving home from Halifax I began to hum it and these new words came quickly to me:
There’s a place that I go with my sorrow
There’s a place that I go with my pain
In the myst’ry of all that is Sacred
I know that my strength I’ll regain
Oh the Universe holds me, it holds me in care
Oh the Universe holds me in care
There the Sacred awaits and opens the gates
To a beautiful garden of prayer
There’s a well that is brimming with water
That can quench all the thirst in my soul
In the myst’ry of all that is Sacred
There is healing that can make me whole
Here I know that I’m one with creation
And I rest by the blossoming tree
In the Myst’ry of all that is Sacred
I know that my Spirit is free
Wherever you find yourself in the journey may your being be filled with the Spirit that can make you whole.
Blessings
Valerie
October 15, 2014
© 2014 Rev. Valerie Peyton Kingsbury