2:57am.....

God, I am sitting here listening to the water drip drip outside my window, and i find myself annoyed. Is there anything I can learn from this incessant noise? Now that this fast has begun, I am trying to see you teaching me in everything, but really.... dripping water?

Lets analyze this... the water is dripping from what I assume is a point on the roof to a point on the rain gutter below making a soft hollow "bom bom bom bom bom" noise. About ten or twelve drops fall, and then there is a pause for a second or two, then ten or twelve more. This happens any time it is wet outside. It will rain and then do this for five hours after the rain.

I'm stretching here for application to this, some kind of lesson to learn. And I am coming up with few comparisons.
- It is constant, as are you.
- It is supplied by the rain which you provided. Could it be that you supply my with trials to test me? Sometimes it rains on me so you can see (or show me) how well I shed the rains of life. Or you are providing me with a little test of being patient and self controlled.
- No one can hear it unless they are where I am at in the house. Likewise, no one really understands what it is like to be in your trial unless they have been there too.

Finally I am tired and going to bed now. see you in the morning.