Bread of Angels

I am reading a Jan Karon book called These High, Green Hills which is fabulous.  In Chapter Two it talks about Bread of Angels.  Such a beautiful illustration of God's love.

Exodus 16 tells us about Moses, Aaron, and the Israelites making a trek through the wilderness from Egypt.  They had a need for food and God miraculously provided their needs, manna.  Every day, all they had to do was gather it.  Psalm 78:25 called it the bread of angels.  How beautiful are those words.

Jan Karon uses this scripture to describe and illustrate marriage.  Every day, with what seemed to be no effort at all on his part, he received God's extraordinary provision of contentment-there it was waiting for him at every dawn; all he had to do was gather it in.    

Those words hit me fresh.  A reminder to my soul that God HAS and WILL always provide for my needs.  Whether it be my physical or mental, He is always there.  I have His word available to me at my fingertips, I just need to pick it up to read it.  I can communicate with Him daily by just praying.  I can have His words engraved in my heart by my committing my thoughts to scripture memorization.  I can have sweet fellowship with Him by doing these things daily, refreshing myself in His love. 

The question for myself is why do I sometimes allow myself to get caught up in the daily grind and not always refresh myself with the bread of angels?  He longs to feed me. 

Lord, help me to long for Your living Word.  Help me to eat daily the bread of angels.  Help me to not get caught up in all that is going on around me, but rather help me to come to Your feet daily getting fed from Your Word.

Bible cover

So, I have a much loved on Bible.  I have had it since I was 13 years old and it was given to me by my parents.  It is my first Bible that I was allowed to high light in.  I was so proud with all of my multi colored highlighters ready to rip out of my Bible cover at any time I thought the pastor said anything important.  I also had a multi colored pen that I could pop up a color at any time to underline if necessary.  My Bible has notes written all over the pages from numerous sermons heard throughout the years, and is truly one of my most prized possessions.  My only fault that I have with it now is that I need to get it recovered.  My leather has ripped off along the seams and the binding is starting to tear the front cover of it.  I desperately need to find a place to have it done.  Preferably in an area that they do it on sight.  My DH told me that I will probably need to have it shipped away, but I really don't feel like I could bear that.  So, my prayer tonight is that God would bring to my attention a place where it will be taken care of.  I kept telling my honey that when I was younger, we would just go to Marantha Bible Book Store and they could bind your Bible for you while you shopped in the store.  And if you were lucky enough like I was, you could get your name embossed on the front of the leather cover also.  While I was waiting I would walk around in the big store and listen to Keith Green on big ole head phones.  Oh the sweet memories.  I need a Maranatha!