One Year with God

DAY 170: I grew up on the saying, “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”   This was often applied to us as children when in spite of all our parents noble attempts to get us to do what was right, we resisted. There is nothing shocking in that revelation I am sure.   What kid hasn’t defied the wiser counsel and even instruction of a parent simply because he or she could?   I was certainly on that list.   You would think, having been the stalwart and stubborn horse (and that is putting it kindly) I would have understood this reality when I myself became a parent.   But nay, time and time again I forged ahead to the stream dragging my own little nags behind me only to discover that they would not partake of the sweet and healthy “water” I had to offer.   But did that stop me from trying?   Not as of yesterday.   Even now as a parent of adult children, I find myself dumbfounded when my very wise advice is spurned, regardless of what persuasive (or man

Day 162: It's been too many days since we "talked" about the Bible together.  Like you, I've continued to meet with God everyday, even if I have not had the opportunity to share any of that journey  because of attending to all of the demands of my dad's cancer diagnosis and then sadly his going ahead of us that love him to the presence of Jesus. After that we also lost a beloved baby born to our extended family and traveled some difficult roads with others. I had a plan to blog the Bible with you for 365 days without interruption.  Life has a funny way of interrupting our plans. My goal was not only to go on a one year, every day journey with God, but to keep on ongoing conversation with you.  I failed.  And every day that I didn't blog through the Bible, I kicked myself for not being able to make it all happen: blogging, my job, my dad, my family, my work, and my random other commitments.  And it has taken an emotional toll called guilt. Here is an approx