Wednesday, April 9
When you walk, [the commandments] will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
—Proverbs 6:22
What if when we walked, we allowed the commandments, or words, of the Holy One lead us? Instead of thinking, musing, or reminiscing, what if we allowed a phrase—like "love others like you love yourself"—to roll around in our soul, letting it become one with our step and our breath? Or, what if when we stretched out our body at day's end we felt the words The One who watches over you will not fall asleep slipping through our entire body like smoke filling an empty cavern with a sweet-smelling scent?
What if we really woke up and felt and heard and tasted the words, I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses—choose life that you may truly live, and felt ourselves wanting to respond by choosing life? There's the chance that we would find our thoughts had become like pebbles sinking in a pond, and for once we could see clearly to the bottom of our soul.
O God, let me learn your words so that they form me from the inside out.
The Signposts for April are written by Renée Miller and originally appeared on explorefaith.org in May 2004.