Time with God: Communication

   I remember once hearing about a phenomenon known as the liminal effect. It essentially proposed that there were certain relationships where we could pick up right where we left off the next time we see someone - even if its years. This is the effect that we see at places like class reunions. But I'm not sure if I buy into the idea of the liminal effect. While it may be true that we can pick up where we left off, we won't really go all that deep, because we are constantly stopping and starting.
   Yet, isn't this how a lot of folks approach their relationship with God? That they grow close for a while, but then they stop and try to pick up where they left off, and we ended up with a lot of Christians with stunted relationships with God instead of deep ones.
   I think we need to honestly ask ourselves if we truly desire deep relationships with God. We love the words of hymns like In the Garden, “He walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own”, but we don't always want to put the time and energy in to have this type of beautiful relationship. 
   Let us seek to have growing relationships with God starting today. Not just ones where we stop and start, but ones where we are constantly going deeper, discovering the richness of God's love for us.