OK, not to rant or anything but I'm away from home this week and I'm trying to log into my account at my wonderful brother-in-law's place and it took me about 1/2 an hour to log in because I can never remember my correct password for one thing and I can't read those goofy squiggly letter password protectors for another.... grrrrrr. My BOL suggested I write about this frustrating experience and relate it to somehow getting into heaven...I'm sure there is some kind of humorous connection there somewhere. Also I picked up a Madeline L'Engle devotional for using in the future... probably a worthy successor to Buechner.
When you sit down to eat, pray: This is a wonderful mystery of your work, O Maker and Governor of the world. You sustain life with food! How great a thing it is that you sustain so many creatures. "The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing" (Psalm 145:15-16)
I ask you to continue life in my body through this food.
You are a liberal distributor of your gifts. You give us all kinds of good things to use. Because you are pure, the things you give are pure. Grant that I may not misuse them. Don't let what you have given for the preservation of my body become the poison of my soul.
The meat and drink before me is for my use and not for me to abuse. You have given them to help me and not to hurt me.
-- John Bradford: Daily Meditations
Near to the Heart of God: July 12
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