There has been construction on our street, one of the main thoroughfares in our village. The street is blocked off halfway up the hill with a sign “ROAD CLOSED.” But it doesn’t stop us from doing what we need to do and going where we need to go. We just seek out another way.
A few weeks ago after a big storm, one could not drive more than a block or two, even on our detour, because of downed trees blocking the roadway. And so, now even the detour had multiple detours.
My habit is to get up early and read the Scriptures and pray before the day bursts forth. Well, needless to say, when the grandchildren are staying with us, I have to find another route, another way to sneak it in. They get up early. Naptime cannot be always counted on. And because I know how the day usually goes with multiple toddlers, it is more secure to prepare for the day ahead by reading at night before I go to sleep. And even so, sometimes that detour has multiple detours.
When our older girls were little – three children aged three and a half and younger – time took on a different meaning. I learned the hard way not to fight time, but to use it. LORD, reveal to me a pocket of time to spend with You. And I watched for that moment, a different space every day, but it was there.
I recently read advice on organizing one’s life. It said that we are defeated by trying to jam a foreign structure or schedule into our world, instead of working with what is already there. Get the habit established first, and it can be tweaked later.
And so with reading God’s Word every day. Work it into the flow of your day. Any which way you can. He will show you how. And you will stand amazed at how He changes your life through it.
More to be desired are Your Words than gold,
even much fine gold,
sweeter also than honey
and drippings of the honeycomb.
Moreover
by them is Your servant warned,
in keeping them there is great reward.
Psalm 19. 10-11
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