Fill. Eat. Savor. Drink.
Repeat.
Come, O Heart, feed on He who is Living Waters and Daily Bread.
Take it and eat it. Like a bee hovering over open bloom, drinking as much nectar as she can hold, imbibe deeply of this Word. Drink slowly, deliberately.
Penetrate. Meditate. Contemplate. Extract the sweet.
“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.”Psalm 119:103
Then, with care and sensitivity, pick a bouquet for the day.
thus ought we,
Carry your blooms with you, O Heart. Pause often in the day’s moments to drink of their sweetness. Inhale and fill yourself with the fragrance of Christ. Again, and again, slowly extract the sweet, filling your mouth with honey.
Then swallow the truth of that sweet little book.
O Heart, do not cringe away from the bitterness that may grip your innards. Truth does that. Your stomach may shrink back in bitterness. Yet too much sweet isn’t best. Like medicine that goes down sweet, and burns bitter deep within, so these Words of Life may seem, at first, sour, for what they expose and lay bare, but they will heal.
Truth may be bitter, but it will transform you, grow you, mature you. It’s bitterness is only for a short time.
Then you, O Heart, will bloom in beauty.
Fill. Eat. Savor. Drink.
Repeat.
(photo: mayumi)
