A Practical Walk

My life is starting to feel a semblance of normalcy. Things aren’t completely awful right now. I’m feeling up about things. While this seems comfortable and I’m happy about it. I’ve known myself my whole life (ha!) and I know that when things calm down, I slowly start skipping Bible reading more frequently. I don’t feel the need to pray as often. Because I have more breathing space in my brain, I can start looking around and thinking about other things, whether good things or distracting things.

While I don’t FEEL in danger, these times where I let my guard down are actually when I’m in more danger, danger of straying form a consistent walk with the Lord. I’ve already seen it sneaking in…I should get started on my chores instead of read the Bible, I can get around to it later. Then later that evening, well I’m just gonna read the news before bed instead of read the Bible. Not that these are necessarily wrong, but I’m already noticing myself easing into these habits and I need to keep my walk with God a priority in all seasons of life, not just when things are hard.

Even just this morning, as I sat on my bed and made my requests known to my Father as they came to mind, it hit me that it’s been too long since I prayed that way. Sure, I’ll toss up mini-prayers throughout the day and I rush through a quick prayer in the mornings. But as I tried to be unrushed in praying, I realized that I actually had a lot to pray about. Maybe some of the needs don’t weigh on me as much as before, but they’re still needs and I still need to be active in prayer.

The prickly pears are blooming!!!