How To Grow A Human Being

I finished reading the Bible through again this morning.  I have lost count how many times I have read it, something like 23 or 24 times.  No one could have convinced me of It’s meaning in my life, of the truth of the verse “It is living and active…”   I had to read it to find out the truths that It is living and life giving.  Just as no one could have convinced me I feel I write in vain because these words cannot convince you to read It.  Reading It is the only proof there is.  Am I somehow hinting toward a miraculous or transcendent reality?  No it is something far greater than that and in the realm of explaining Life.  This morning there is a soft gentle rain on.  As I sit here in the dark meditating upon the truth I cannot explain, the rain gives me an apt metaphor.  The Bible to a human is like good soil, cool rain and warm sun to a seed.  There is no way to be a true human being without continually reading the Bible.