Bring The Rain

I recently brought home an orphaned peace lily baby for Lauren to love. Since I am the black thumb in the family, I leave the real plant care to her....she has tomatoes on the vine as we speak and manages to keep my Mother's Day planter from withering and crumbling.
With this baby, we potted it, plant spiked it, and then trotted off to the Dollarama to purchase a set of Aquaglobes to keep it watered. If you've never suffered through an infomercial on the amazing powers of an Aquaglobe, let me refresh your memory: they are 10 cents worth of mixed glass melted into a hollow bulb with a long thin tube that you fill with water, spike upside down into a plant's roots, thus providing slow release of water on demand. For all you fellow black thumbs/busy moms, this means unsupervised watering of a plant that will most likely otherwise die once you place it in a neglected corner of your house.

After a few weeks of watching this miracle of gardening (percoset and whiplash will do that to you, especially if you hurt too much to go outside and watch the grass grow) I realized that this object is a perfect lesson on the importance of daily bible reading!

 Seriously, let's all join hands and sing "Read Your Bible, Pray Every Day"! (I hope you know the chorus..if not, youtube it!)

Okay, no more percoset for you.

Anyways, I realized that these days there are so many ways to get a daily dose of God's word.....you can sign up for a verse a day with mainstream Bible Ministries, you can download reading plans, you can listen to the Bible on your phone.....this list goes on. I myself look forward to listening to our Sunday morning reading assignment over breakfast with Craig....the dude reading is hilarious but somehow manages to impart a serious tone to the Word...I may mock his accent but his reading of the crucifixion brought tears to my eyes when we listened.

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path" Pslm 115:105

I need a daily washing in the Word, especially if I want to get as far away from the car wreck mentality that I have been graciously delivered from.....I need the Word every day, whether my spiritual temperature is hot, cold, dry, wet, tense, indifferent, drugged, in pain, pushing up the hill or rolling down the incline....God's Word reminds my every day that God is in control, He is loving, He thinks I'm awesome, and He can't wait to show me how HUGE He is going to be in my day!

I am responsible to ask God every day: Bring The Rain!!!!