All The Way To The Tub - The One Year Devotional of Joy and Laughter
All the Way to the Tub
Your word is a lamp to guide my feetand a light for my path.I’ve promised it once, and I’ll promise it again:I will obey your righteous regulations.
Psalm 119:105-106
My husband’s Granny Jordan lived to be ninety without suffering a broken bone. But that’s not to say she never fell. Whether she had an equilibrium problem or was just clumsy, the family never decided. Suffice it to say, she never hurt herself badly enough to decide to see a doctor for testing. And she never owned up to being clumsy.
It became a family joke even before she became elderly. When her teenagers left for school in the morning, they would say, “Now, Mama, don’t go out to get the mail until we get home. We don’t want you to fall off that curb—what would the neighbors say about finding you in the gutter?”
Later in life, Granny Jordan lived with her daughter and son-in-law. One night she got up to go to the bathroom, and when she stood up from the toilet, she tipped herself over into the nearby bathtub. Not wanting to wake the “kids” at two o’clock in the morning, she just pulled a towel over her arms and lay there until their alarm clock went off.
When someone teased Granny Jordan about her frequent falls, she would laugh and explain, “I only fall enough to stay in shape.”
I wonder how many of us could say the same thing about our spiritual lives. How often do we have to wait for our Father to pull us up out of the problems into which we fall?
—Dianna Booher
Lord, thank you for guiding my steps and keeping me safe on the path that leads to you. Help me not to fall for the devil’s tricks but to stay on solid footing with you. I know that without your care and grace, I would stumble and fall. Bless me, O Lord. Amen.
