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I have recently found out something disturbing about myself...I am getting old. I have been plagued with foot pain for the last few weeks and have finally narrowed it down to fallen arches. Fallen arches?!? Isn't that for little old ladies with orthopaedic shoes and a walker? Not for me! Well, wake up and smell the Dr. Pepper because that is my problem. It stems from this year of homeschooling, actually. Until this year, I have worked a full time job that required you wear shoes...my current job (homeschooling) has a much more relaxed dress code. Sooooo....around the house, I never seemed to put on shoes. It didn't even occur to me that I needed the support everyday from shoes. I didn't notice an immediate problem, so I went day after day without the support my body needed.
Well, you can imagine that as soon as I began feeling that pain and I narrowed down the problem to no shoes, I became a shoe wearing fool! I bought inserts, I laced my shoes properly, I wear comfortable socks...I am now an expert. I am even going to spend more money than I normally would for shoes just to get a pair of shoes that is supposed to be good for this kind of problem. My "sole" pain sparked immediate and intense action. It also occured to me that if I had been supporting my feet all along, I would not have had this "sole" crisis.
How often do we go without the support our "soul" needs? We plug along day after day without the critical uplifting of the Father through his Word and through spending time in desperate prayer with Him. If things are going smoothly, we tend to think we can handle things just fine with Him. But just let our soul feel some pain. Let our lives be disrupted by an unexpected turn of events and we are clinging to the Word every minute. We are breathing cries of help every minute, wondering how we could have gotten so far off the beaten path.
I am so incredibly guilty of that! When I am facing difficulties, I read my Bible for encouragement and guidance. I pray without ceasing during the day and often catch myself just conversing with God, pouring out my heart and requests to him. But when times are good and I am content, I find myself with an apathetic attitude toward my relationship with God. How much more prepared would I be for those crises if I had the support EVERYDAY from an intimate time with God? I am not talking about the time spent teaching the Bible in school or making sure your children read their daily scriptures. I do that. I am talking about that one-on-one time that a child spends with her Father, her Creator. That's the kind of Soul Support I desperately need. Maybe I am the only one who neglects to do that... |
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