Gold, Clothes & Eye drops

Coffee is a wonderful invention. O.K., hold on. Not just any coffee. I like the smooth taste of a fresh, gourmet bean, rich and hot. It is a religious experience. Oh, and I like it to come with mornings. Mornings are pretty cool too as long as they don't involve the phrases "running late," "I should have done this last night," and well, you get the picture. Wait, one more thing--well two: my easy chair and my big heavy Bible. And my cat. The cat is purely for warmth, complementing the "hot" in my coffee. However I do have some complications holding my big Bible and making room for the cat to warm my legs. But things seem to work out most mornings.

The truth is religious experiences are so temporal. Thirty minutes later the memory of hot coffee and a heavy Bible fades. I did find something a little longer lasting yesterday morning. I was reading Revelation 3 and learned about being "wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked." (Rev 3:17 NASB) The Bible is so helpful when you want to see yourself. I found a new "checklist" to try with my mornings in the next verse:

I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

Rev 3:18 (NASB)

The thing is that none of these items is useful unless you are "wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked."

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