Pickles & Praise

Recently a good solid “streak” of mine ended. You know the type? A daily count type tickler on some app saying you’ve logged on every day? Honestly it’s marketing genius for people (I’m these people) who are self competitive. The Bible app has one and it tells you how many consecutive days you’ve logged on to read the daily scripture, but it further offers a video commentary from someone on that particular set of versus and a prayer time. Proudly I made it to a high double digit number and was excited to hit the three digit 100 days!!!!

You see… I have a particular routine in the morning. Silence alarm, Pray- surrender my day and myself to whatever Gods plan is. (More of a reminder for me that Him) … I then open the Bible app daily verse and devotional followed by reading my physical Bible and journal before getting out of bed.

Once my feet hit the floor my focus is “done for” so I make sure I have all that I need right beside me before drifting into to dreamland every night.

One, recent, not so significant day I woke up out of routine. My THIRD alarm tone woke me signaling I was LATE and now going to have to rush to get ready and make it to work … This alarm is usually the one that tells me I am 10 minutes past needing to wrap up my journaling. Springing out of bed I went. It felt like the whole day kept making sure I was running behind in everything I did! Finally the day was done and I laid down just a little past midnight. Tucking my toes deep under the heavy blankets and sliding in between precisely place pillows I closed my eyes and deeply sighed… BAM it hit me! I never looked at the daily scripture thus ending my streak and starting the tickler back to zero.

Through frustration and tiredness I blamed the app for not reminding me, I blamed the day for being so rocky, and then I pouted (full bottom lip out and everything) and then a soft whisper in my spirit and touched me. “Daughter , your time spent in the word isn’t a competition … it’s a relationship with me and I’m right here.”

Gosh … isn’t life that sometimes? We get so caught up in the routine of things and what we’re doing that we periodically miss the WHO we’re doing it for anyway?

Take a deep breath. You’re not out of time. The ticker starts over. Life moves forward. HE is still here.

Thats a word with far more depth than this little story. 🤟🏻🤍