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Waking Up
Do you have a time when you just start to wake up, where
your mind and heart are mostly empty and you can fill yourself with whatever
you wish? It’s like no thoughts are yet pressing in on you, so you can choose
to think on whatever you desire. Hidden beneath the covers and comforted by
your pillow you can breathe in and fill your life up.
In these precious moments, I tend to fill my life with thoughts
of God and His wonders. Often just the awareness that I am breathing gives me
an internal warmth. I feel like I am free to breathe in hope or wisdom, inspiration
or insight. I become more aware that my destiny, my life is not something that
happens to me, but something I live out. From out of my being, I face the day,
the duties, the desires.
Waking up is a great gift from God. How wonderful that life
is full of waking up. What a dullness life would be if we were ever on, ever
awake. All the wonders we enjoy of starting fresh, new, and rest would be
unknown to us. We would be like machinery, unaware of life, of rhythms of
morning and evening, start and end. We are not equipment, we do not starts with
a flip of a switch. We get to awaken. In the mystery of wakening up we discover
each day our existence, life, purpose, creativity, love.
We get to choose to fill our mind, our emotions, our lives with
whatever. We have the opportunity to know what we are choosing, to love or
dream or hope or fear. We are living and being alive is a part of waking up. It
is full of wonder. But we can live without wonder, we can overlook it.
We can fall into the trap of just getting up and getting on
with it. We can fail to see that we are alive, that today is new, that life can
be breathed in. We can develop a machine mentality, to think that our life
consist of how much we work, accomplish, produce. But even if we are under the
pressure of difficult work situations, we are still alive, able to awaken today
and be inspired, encouraged.
Enjoy the times of awakening, those moments where you can
fill your life with good things before the call to give out. Value the
infilling, so that the giving away is a gift, not a demand. Awaken each day to receive
more than enough of whatever you need, so that you have more than enough to
share.
God in His creative wisdom made the universe to offer many
of these little gifts of love to us. The design of life, of world rotating, of galaxies
circling, give to us seasons of sleep followed by awakening. What do you do in
those first moments where you realize that you are alive, that life is yours? Do
you ponder riches or joy?
Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy. (1Ti 6:17)
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