The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. - Paul Valery -
I am not an early morning person; actually, am kind of a night owl. I have begun exercising at 6:30 am as part of my own call to do "something new". That means I must get out of bed when the first number on the clock is still a 5. I am amazed at how "new" I feel after just a week. I have already learned that the wake up call is literal. Wake up. Get up. Get the day going. Watch the sky brighten with the new day.
Wake up is also a call to pay attention. Look around you and really take it in. Listen with your ears and your heart. Experience your life with all your senses.
Finally, wake up emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually.
"For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We're not of the night or of darkness. So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but we must stay awake and be sober." 1 Thessalonians 5:5,6
Where have you been sleeping in your life? Where has your thinking or perspective been napping and only half aware? Where have you dozed and coasted? Wake up!
Rhonda Gipson Willis says:
ReplyDeleteI so need to incorporate the "wake up" into parts
of my life. Wouldn't hurt to get up earlier to get important things done vs staying in bed til the last possible minute. On that note, I suppose I should get on up. Mournin', y'all. Btw, this blog belongs to a former classmate of mines, Beth Barrett Madigan, give it a read when you get a chance, it chocked full of good stuff!
Thanks Rhonda! I am coaching myself here for sure. I am discovering how often I have been half asleep and marginally aware...