Life is an adventure. Although we live in a world of routine, sometimes our routine is upset when life takes a new road to new adventures.
As I thought about the word “routine,” lots of images crossed my vision:
Up at the same time everyday to prepare for work
Leave at the same time everyday to drive to work
Take the same route everyday to work
Eat lunch at the same time every day
Leave work at the same time everyday
Take the same route home
Eat dinner at the same time everyday
Go to bed at the same time everyday
I’m certain everyone has variations on their personal routine; especially those with children. Yet the fact remains; we are creatures of routine.
But what happens when we change just one element of our routine?
Changing one fifteen minute block of time in my routine changed my life. Just fifteen minutes – every morning wedged between “Up at the same time everyday to prepare for work” and “Leave at the same time everyday to drive to work” revolutionized my thinking and my goals.
What was so powerful that it changed my life – in only fifteen minutes every morning? No, it was not physical exercise, although it is important also.
Fifteen minutes of reading the BIBLE opened my mind and heart to God’s plan for my life. While I nourished my body with food, I also nourished my mind with God’s wisdom for the day.
Our mind needs spiritual nourishment just as our body needs vitamins and minerals to sustain a healthy life. Society is consumed with improving the “look” of the body, but spends little time on improving the “look” of the mind. Although we can’t see the “mind,” we experience the effects of its neglect.
God gave everyone twenty-four hours in a day – and for most, eight of those hours are consumed with sleep plus another ten hours for work leaves approximately six hours for all the other activities of life. Not a lot of time to accomplish all our to-do’s necessary in the busy world we live in, but more than enough time to spent time in the Word of God.
How did my “morning spiritual nourishment” change my life?
It assured me of my salvation with the Lord. When Jesus said, “It Is FINISHED!” – He meant it is FINISHED. He paid the price for my sins – once and for all. I now live under the waterfall of His GRACE. Through his death on the cross, I have assurance of eternal life in heaven and for blessings while I am here on earth. One day I will be in my new home and see Jesus face to face to personally thank him for all he has done in my life!!!
What else have I learned from my spiritual nourishment?
That God gave me a gift, actually two, no – three: writing, photography and volunteering with the disabled. And once I began to exercise my gifts, the blessings flowed like living water over my life. They flowed through my fingers when I wrote My Sister My Hero Cathy Porter Ms. Wheelchair Maryland 2007 in nine weeks. They flowed through the lens of my camera when photographing his beautiful creations. They flowed through my outreach into the disability community.
The flowed and they flowed and they continue to flow.
I believe spiritual nourishment is vital to living a life full of adventures. But I must warn you …
Fifteen minutes wedged between my “Up at the same time everyday to prepare for work” and “Leave at the same time everyday to drive to work” expanded into listening to Bible study and worship music on the way to/from work, reading great books written by the anointed of God which has led me to an unquenchable thirst to be all I can be for the Lord.
Routine is great – and is necessary for a successful life. But routine without the Word of God in our lives is not healthy. It’s a routine that needs to be shaken to its roots and reorganized to make reading the Word of God the most important time of our morning routine.
We can have Routine and Adventure in our life – God’s way!!!
When we make time for God, he will make the desires of our heart a reality and give us his adventures of a lifetime!!!
© Nancy Carey
My Sister My Hero Cathy Porter Ms. Wheelchair Maryland 2007
http://www.nancycarey.com/
