DAY 184 -- Spiritual Medication

As I start out the day, every day, I pause and collect a grundle ( is grundle a word?) of pills to take.  I remember when I was much younger I watched my parents take a mouth full of pills each day. I thought they must be on their death bed to eat so many pills each day.  Now I am them. 

Each pill, there is a reason.  Each pill facilitates the day, takes away the pain, and permits me to run a half way normal life.  One example:  I destroyed my back a few years ago and I have had terror stories told me of the results of back surgery.  Thus I have chosen not to pursue back surgery and to live on pain pills to get me through the day.  Another one example:  I worked for a time reading water meters in the city of Sandy.  During those years I knelt down over two million times to read meters, and thus my knees are in real sad shape.  (I wish I could say I prayed that many times and thus my knees...)  So I use another pill to assist in the joint problems I have.

Anyway, back to the important things.  As I looked at all those pills this morning, I remembered how I feel when I miss my regular pill taking.  No need to go there now, but it is not comfortable.  So I continue to partake of those pills, assuming that it helps my physical existence during the day.

Well this morning, I paused and considered the spiritual "pills" I should be taking every day.  I am so religious (no pun intended) about taking my pills each morning, but how religious am I in taking my prayer pill, my scripture pill, touching bases with Father pill-more than prayer, but keeping Him in my mind to be open to revelation, and other spiritual pills. 

Instead of remembering my spiritual pills, I usually walk out the door and my mind returns to the inconsequential "fluff" of the day, forgetting my desired communication with my Father, my pondering about Him and my blessings, asking who I can touch, uplift today, etc. 

I need to first analyze my spiritual pills of the day, see if there isn't some additional medication I need for the day, and be just as religious in taking these pills as I am the other ones.  I need to be conscious of my spiritual health probably more than I am my physical health.  Then I would propose that my physical health would improve?   Pills, pills, Bill's pills.