Today my husband and I were on a mission. We both had the day off and we had it planned out. We woke up, had our coffee and then I hit the shower. We got to talking and lost track of time. With that, we headed out.
When we got to where we were going, I immediately noticed that I did not have my phone. With my son being away, I felt very uneasy without it. My son knows that if he can't reach me, he can always call Mark and has done so on many occassions so my "concern" was really self imposed and unfounded.
You know how it is though....our phone is our lifeline! I wondered all day if someone might need me and not be able to reach me. I had my ipad but that didn't do me any good. At no point was I ever alone. I was with my husband all morning. In fact, I used his phone to call and make a nail appointment. Still I wondered "Had my sister tried to call me? Had Mom? Would Matthew worry if I didn't answer?"
I left for my nail appointment still wondering what I would do without my phone. By now it was 3:00 in the afternoon and Mark and I went in different directions. I took my ipad with me and willed it to make a phone call to no avail. What I did discover however, was that I could text from my ipad and that eased the concern. I texted Mark and my son so I wasn't completely without communication.
When we got home in the evening, I went straight upstairs to look for my phone. I found it and you know how many phone calls I had missed? One! My neighbor had called wanting to drop off something. As I picked up my phone, I saw my Bible and devotion book. I was immediately reminded that I had not done my devotion that morning.
My mantra is "If I shower before I do my devotion, it won't get done." True to my own word, I got caught up in the conversation with my husband and I did not do my devotion. The story behind that is that I never once gave thought to not doing my devotion that morning; but all day I thought of the phone call I might have missed.
How is it that I missed my phone so much but I never missed what "charges me" up? My prayer is that if I should miss another devotion, I will really miss it!
My soul yearns for you in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for you. Isaiah 26:9
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