Daily Devotion - Monday, March 29

Morning Glory

“O magnify the Lord with me,
let us exalt God’s name together.”
--A request to sing of God’s goodness

A couple weeks ago, I started planting flower seeds. Most of them are from our flowers last year. Some of them have quite a history, connecting us with special people in our lives.

• There’s the morning glory seed. Our original morning glory seeds came from the wife of a cancer patient some years ago. She brought the seeds to me and told me how during the last months of her husband’s life they would get up and walk in their back yard sipping on their morning coffee. She told me about his favorite line as they walked by their morning glory beds. “Good morning glory, it is going to be a glorious day.” She gave me the seeds and told me that she was giving them to people who would keep her husband living in this world.

• The western fence in our back yard will be filled with morning glory again this year as I remember a dear man of God, still living even though cancer called him from this life prematurely.

• Today is Monday. Good morning glory! It is going to be a glorious day.

A prayer: Through the seed and soon the budding flower, connect me, O God, with you. Amen.

--Ben Keckler
03.29.10