Gracious radiating energy, bring us into that space that each of us holds sacred for your presence. Open us as we gather for your creative movent and thought...
Life is so much like a tootsie pop. There are those days when we are so wrapped up in how we feel or how something is going to affect us personally that we forget that others are wrapped up in the same ways.
The color of our wrappings may be all different. Our perspectives even cause our wrappings to be wound tightly around the "stick" that supports us. Our wrappings may even come undone with the wear and tear of being tossed around in life's pocket.
When we take off the protective covering, (which if you think about it...it hides the true self from the world, protecting very little) there is a hard surface ready to face the world. How often do we show others our hard surface?
yes, this uneven hard surface can act as a buffer against life's bumps and bruises; however if dropped or struck in a certain manner it can crack or chip. Let us recognize that this coating has a pleasant flavor for those times when we choose to enjoy life by ourselves or with others.
God, inside that hard protective outer covering is a special place where we allow so few...sometimes only you touch us there. It is place though, that is the same in all us tootsie pops. It is the soft spot within that we all possess, that is your gift to us.
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop? Only you God, know for sure. Help us to get past our wrappings and the wrappings of others...past the protective outer coating that shields or allows us to hide from who we really are... help us to reach out from the soft centers where you are really present to us. May there not be too many licks to get to the center of our true beings as persons you would have us be. Amen.
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