Did you ever get so busy that you forgot to eat? Before you know it, you're cranky and exhausted, snapping at everyone around you. Your productivity begins to take a dive. It is hard to focus and easy to make mistakes. Things can become pretty ugly when we forget to eat.
I think the soul starves when we do not take time to ingest the daily bread of God's presence. I am finding that skipping a day or two of quiet time with God leaves me weak and snappish. I become lazy and lethargic. I lose my sense of purpose. Little things irritate me, and it is more difficult to find beauty in the world around me. Only when I notice the ugly symptoms do I realize that I am starving. I am ravenous. I need God to fill me. To function, I need to remember to eat.
Give us this day our daily bread.
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