God's Energy

Again today I will pull up something I wrote last summer when I took the online class "Practicing Spirituality During Illness." The practice for the day was to complete this sentence: "God's energy is constantly flowing through me, __________."
God's energy is constantly flowing through me, giving me strength, washing away fear, leading me in the right direction, and doing marvelous things. I like to think of myself as a servant who God can use to help make this world more like the place He intended it to be. Sometimes I'm a sower...planting seeds along my path. Sometimes I'm a hostess...doing my best to make the people I meet comfortable. Perhaps feeding, clothing. visiting with them or simply allowing them to stay with me and just rest for a while.
We each have Spiritual gifts. Different gifts...same Spirit. When we allow the energy of the Spirit that flows through us to pour out of us...it is not lost. It produces fruit. Fruit that nourishes the lives we touch...and even live that we never meet. Think of a fruit tree. Some people come by and eat what they want, they are nourished and toss the rest. The fruit that falls and breaks down over time has the potential of becoming another tree. Some people take more than they want and share it with others...they (who have never seen the tree) are also nourished.
It is amazing to me. Amazing how many lives can be enriched by someone who is willing to allow the Spirit of God to flow through them. And another amazing thing is...that Spiritual energy is limitless. We just have to keep our taps open. Yay!

Writing has been a wonderful outlet for me. Some of what I've written about (especially about being mom's caregiver) I've shared with other people who I thought might either get a kick out of it...or it might help them understand where I'm coming from. On several occasions now, I've been told that what I've shared about my experiences were passed along to other people (that I will never know) through lectures, thank you notes and in personal visits with patients and their families. Who knows where it will go from there!
I'm glad I opened my "Caregiver's Journal" today. I was feeling a little low on energy. I really needed to remind myself that God's energy is constantly flowing through me....and I needed to get out of the way and let it flow!