Love Letter to the Universe – Whom I Also Refer to as the One Who Loves Me Most

Hello. I’m here today, thanks to You. Thank you! Your love and care for me is all encompassing. I see it everywhere. I have shelter, transportation, movement, hearing, eyesight, the power of thought. I have love and friendship. I have support. All because of You.

Thank you for Your constant creativity. Ever moving, ever springing up, never the same. I am completely in awe as I consider the magnitude of You. You are bigger than any name, any pronoun, any inadequate descriptor or effort to understand You. The evidence of You is everywhere! You power every thought, beat every heart, created the stars and planets, nurseries for the new ones while tending to the old ones, and what exists beyond them. What is beyond the Universe You created? It is the mystery I will never know while here in this body. You created time and space, and You live inside both of those things – You live inside of all living things, and You live inside all things without heartbeat or thought. You move the invisible wind, and You *are* the invisible wind. How this is possible is beyond my comprehension, yet I am content to experience the joy of that knowing.

Thank you for the joy I feel. Thank you for the happy anticipation of the gifts You offer me daily, available to me any time I consider them. Although I still have yet to open to them all, I know (not always but when I remind myself) that I can have all that I believe I can. What a miracle it is each time I open to that; You flood me with beauty and joy. I know that it’s not about things I can have or possessions I might own, but completely about my feelings. When I picture something I think I want, I know that it’s not that thing at all, but the feeling it would give me. When I open to that feeling, it most often is one of peace, of freedom, of happiness, of joy. And those things are available to me any time I want them. Every time. Every single time.

We humans are in an unprecedented time in our history. We are challenged, we are sometimes scared, uncertain, disoriented by what is happening all around us. I wish everyone could know what I know. You! I wish everyone could know that experience I have with You. When I stop and open my heart to You, I leave this place of emotion and physicality. I am with You. The wonder and comfort of that experience is something I wish everyone could know.

In the Grand Canyon, I was with You. Disappeared right into You. The comfort, the vastness, the unimaginable Love I knew in those moments reminded me of what is True, what is Real. I touched the Truth in those moments. I’ve had them in other moments, too, like the times when I needed to be present for someone in the deepest traumatic grief of their life. I had the opportunity to be You in those moments. You gave me Grace in the Grand Canyon, and You have given me Grace in those grief filled moments with those suffering. You give me Grace each day, and I am sorry that I don’t often see it. But I see it now, I see it in this moment, and I want to express my complete and utter joy and gratitude for it.

My heart literally rises in joy when I am quiet, allowing You to become visible, allowing myself to feel Your Presence. I love You. I love You. I love You. Amen.