So I've been going through a few days of being frustrated because I haven't been seeing RESULTS in my work, right? So -- what has been one of the passages over the past few days in the daily lectionary that I use? It's the story of Jonah. And what's the basic dynamic in that story? Jonah is frustrated/angry/resentful because things haven't been going as HE thinks they should.

To Jonah, it's all about him!

But God is making the point: "No. It's not all about you. In fact, it's not about you at all. It's all about me."

"Ok, ok," I say in my prayer, "I get the point. It's not about me. It's about you, and simply doing the work that you give me to do. The results will come, if you decide to give them."

I find that this kind of thing happens to me frequently, while engaging in the faith practice of daily Bible reading. In my prayer, I come to see how God is speaking to me through the Bible.

It doesn't happen all the time, and I certainly can't make it happen. Sometimes it all seems like a waste of time -- for days!

But when I sit with the daily Bible verses, and sit in my prayer, in openness and patience, the Spirit enters in often enough to be significant.

All I can do is to keep to the discipline of the faith practice, open to the gift that may come.

When is it working for you to do your daily Bible reading? Early morning? Noon? At night?