Nurturing the Life Within #4

I know a woman who went to great lengths to ensure the healthy birth of her baby. She ate tons of vegetables, insisted on natural childbirth, even stopped cooking with aluminum pots because she read that aluminum coming off the pots could be dangerous to her fetus. Oddly, however, she continued to drink White Russians—a combination of milk, Kahlua and vodka--throughout her pregnancy. She explained to me that she had drunk so many during her lifetime that they were just like milk to her.

She had a blind spot when it came to White Russians. She didn’t seem to realize that a big glass of milk with two shots of alcohol in it is not the same thing as a big glass of milk—especially not when it comes to the healthy development of a baby.

The truth is, we all have blind spots. There are lots of things in our lives that we think are just like milk—and, in fact, they may be mostly milk—but they are dangerous to our spiritual lives nonetheless. That’s why daily habits of Bible reading, prayer and quiet time to think about God are so important. These are the ways that God reveals to us our blind spots so that the new life within us came begin to thrive and to grow to maturity.