Day after Christmas. I'm trying to re-establish a little Devotional routine in the morning, praying and reading Scripture. This is something I've drifted way from lately.
Yesterday I read Luke 2, aka The Linus Verses. Using the cross-references for some of those verses, this morning I moved over to Isaiah 9:1-6. And that's the plan. Follow the cross-refs. Look for themes. Add a randomly chosen Psalm. Then write out a prayer based on a theme you've picked out.
It has the virtue of being simple, and involves some writing, which helps to clarify things for me. By reinforcing a theme it may just help to stay my thoughts on that theme throughout the day. Toward the end of the day I may return to the journal with thoughts and another brief written prayer.
This will work, will be a succesful devotional practice, if it results in a greater devotion to God, a sense of the Spirit's presence and guidance.
It's a new beginning, a necessary re-start. "Look, even now I am doing a new thing," says God. "Do you not see it?" I'm hoping to be able to answer, "Tes, Lord. I see it!"
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