Who Do You Think I Am?

   

                            Everyday is a brand new day,

                            everyday is a journey.

Teach me your mood, O patient stars!

    Who climb each night the ancient sky,
  Leaving on space no shade, no scars,
    No trace of age, no fear to die.
R. W. EMERSON.

I have believed in God all of my life. I have been raised as a Catholic where I feared and respected who God was in all of our lives as part of His Creation. I grew up believing that God was too high up for me to reach personally so that's why He had Priests and nuns. For me, there were many questions and there was no one to answer them. As the questions grew, so did my search for that something "more" in my life. 

I believed in Him. I feared Him. I respected Him. Yet, I did not know Him intimately. 

When I needed to confess my sins, I went to the Priest for absolution of my sins. When I needed prayer for my safety, health or any other request, I prayed to Mother Mary or the Saints. If I had a very important prayer request, I would ask the Priest to pray for me. Somehow, I never believed I was qualified to come before God myself. As if my prayers were not strong enough or worthy enough, but needed intercession of the clergy. 

So what does it mean to have a relationship with God? It means going to Him for all of the above. He should be our first choice, the first one that we run to in our time of need. The first one we run to with praise, with Joy and with sorrow. Friends may leave you. Family nay leave you, but He always stays by our side in the bad, the good and the ugly. At times, He even carries us.

So yes, I still believe in Him. I still fear Him. I still respect Him. But, He is also my Savior, my Healer, my Waymaker, my Omega, my Abba Father. He is my everything. 

Who do you think He is to you? Your life?

Have a blessed day everyone.