Category: Letters to God
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A Note to God
Dear God: The current state of things has made it brilliantly clear to me that You are, and will always be, the only Truth I will ever know. I need to be honest and tell You that this clarity is a bit unnerving. While I trust in Your plans for me, and have faith in…
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Dear God…
Dear God: The desires of my heart are yours. I know this. I know you know what they are. Actually, I believe they are there because of my yearning to be closer to you. So, why do they feel so distant, so far away, so never-in-this-lifetime-available? It all seems so unfair, as I look around…
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Dear God…
What should I do, God, when I just don’t understand Your plan? This thing that is happening right now is baffling to me. My friend is a good person. My friend has served You for more years than I have been alive. My friend has helped so many of Your children to find their way…
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Dear God…
Dear God: What’s with this detachment I’ve been feeling? Complete indifference. Apathy. I feel nothing, nothing at all. Not even my own heart beating in my chest. I breathe in and I know my lungs fill with precious and life-giving air, but I feel nothing. I pray and I know You are listening and responding,…
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Why Pray?
Dear God: Why do I pray to You? I know that You know what I am going to say before I even say it. I know that You know all the thoughts that enter my mind throughout each day. I know that You know the pangs of my heart, the yearnings within my soul, the…
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Dear God…
Dear God: Why is everyone so angry – and so quick to judge others – even people they have never met? The state of our country right now is not unity or brotherhood or even “we shall overcome.” The state of our country is screaming, close-mindedness, and fingers pointed. Sometimes I don’t know which way…
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Dear God…
Dear God: I am always amazed when I feel gratitude during times of struggle. Lately, there have been so many difficult things going on around me – friends hurting, the country fighting, the world aching – and yet I remain grateful for Your Grace and the blessings that cross my path each day. The old…
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Dear God…
Dear God: Here’s what I don’t get. Why, after all the work I have done and continue to do on myself, my past, my resentments, etc. do I still feel so hurt and unappreciated by the way some of Your other children treat me? I pray every morning to be what You want me to…
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Dear God…
Sometimes I just need to escape. Escape from everything that lives and breathes around me. Escape from Your other children. Escape from the pressure of simply being me. When this urge arises, it does not feel good. In fact, it feels as if I am disappointing You – like there is something inherently wrong with…
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A Prayer
Dear God: Please release me of the negativity that has been hanging over my head for the last twenty-four hours. Please grant me lightness in acceptance, and grace in tolerance. Please guide my thoughts away from self-righteousness and towards places of humility and understanding. I know that without You showing me the way, I will…