“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.
(Matthew 23.23
NRSV)
The daily trips were still monotonous, however. Dave could almost make the drive in his sleep, he recalls. Yet these long drives became an opportunity for Dave Dravecky to grow in his faith. He'd think and pray and listen to tapes of his favorite Bible teachers. Sometimes he would listen to a tape of worshipful music and sing along with it. His voice isn't exactly the sound of music, Dave says, "but the hills did seem to come alive!" It was good "quality time" when he would not be interrupted by the telephone or anything else.
Those eight weeks driving to and from Cleveland Clinic saved Dave's life his spiritual life, that is. He needed that time alone, he says, with the Lord. He needed it desperately, maybe even more than the radiation.
Are you taking care of your spiritual life?
God of love, help me to not neglect my spiritual life. Amen.
