A Midday Devotional Refresh, Part 2 (TMF:2254)

Thursday, December 28, 2023
Peace to Live By: A Midday Devotional Refresh, Part 2 (TMF:2254) - Daniel Litton
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       Sometimes it’s by late-afternoon or even the evening. This doesn’t always happen, but it does on some days. I have forgotten what I had refreshed my mind on in the morning. So, what I have found is that it can be good to have what I call a ‘Devotional Refresh’ that occurs around lunchtime or later in the afternoon. It doesn’t have to be a long time, say ten minutes, where you go over the notes you took from your morning devotion. This ‘keeps alive’ that time well spent so that your good thoughts can carry on throughout the remainder of the day. Interestingly enough, where I actually learned with was from Benjamin Franklin. In his autobiography, he goes over his daily schedule and the fact that he would spend some time at lunch refreshing his mind on that morning’s devotional time (see The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1790, public domain). He said this helped him throughout the day. I was struck by the simplicity of this, and the fact that it had never occurred to me to do this kind of practice. It seems so obviously good. It is just as we usually don’t simply eat breakfast, and expect that breakfast to carry us until dinner. No, we eat this thing called lunch a few hours after breakfast to get us to dinner.