Thank You for That Awakening Touch

06/18/20

Father God, Creator of the heavens and the earth, thank You for the glories of the works You have made with Your hands. And thank You for making us sentient and conscious beings able to know and experience You. The trees clap their hands, the sparrows sing worship. But we can KNOW You and experience You and encounter Your feelings and Your judgements and Your wisdom. Thank You for making us awake and alive to what’s real, not simply the wheat bowing in the fields or the squirrels, of internal set of nature, gathering nuts for winter. You’ve made us like You that we can know You by burying our lives in Your will. Thank You for that awakening touch.

There are of course ways we can lose this freedom to experience You, dear Abba. We can allow ourselves to be consumed by the inanimate earth and its things, we can allow ourselves to be enslaved by others, or we can allow mammal instincts to blind us. There are paths also to Yet more freedom. Listening, saturating, serving, worshipping, obeying the “smallest” impressions or writings of Your desires. Help us by Your Holy Spirit to be free of self life and mammal instinct, to bury ourselves in You, and to know the freedom that only those Born in Your image can experience. More and more, unto the full day. 3:00 p.m.