I’ve spent a lot of my life waking up feeling stressed and burdened. Before I opened my eyes I felt the strain of the day ahead of me. I woke up already feeling defeated.
In the last few years that has shifted. Through a variety of tactics, mental shifts, and skills gained I can often wake up with a much lighter mood. There was a stretch of time when I would wake up and feel light and cheerful – at least as cheery as can be expected at 6 AM. Some days I even felt surprised at my own happy vibe!
But there’s been a lot of change and upheaval in my life in the last year and a bit and I’ve noticed the heavy, stressed, bogged-down wake up feeling creeping back in. I was noticing that recently when I heard about someone making an effort to read the Bible first thing in the morning as a way of inviting the Lord into their day, rather than going on social media.
I was pondering this idea and thinking about how that could maybe help, and maybe I should try to find a way to make time for that……I was waffling. But I thought maybe it would make a small difference to my beginning mood. I decided to think about it.
Then I heard a sermon by Derek Elphick about the story of Naaman:
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