Every morning after I wake up I have a moment. Lying in bed I realize I am awake. Thoughts that I went to sleep with jumble themselves up into a mass of scenarios in my imagination. Sometimes the dawn of remembering what I have to do that day interrupts a half-sleepy problem solving synapse session gone awry. Somewhere in the mix I notice that my brain has a mind of its own and I feel around for the off button. I quiet my thoughts, I breath, I turn to the Lord. That last for about 5 seconds.
Thoughts can be very subtle interrupters. Things that grab my gray matter and make me pay attention when I know that I will be much more peaceful if I take a little time off to listen to Him instead of replaying the jumble.
And then of course there are the ah-ha moments. If I were to write them down I could probably (very nearly anyway) claim one ah-ha moment per morning. It might be the solution to a problem that surfaces through the mind muck, a clean, clear and precise realization that smiles brightly at me as if I were silly to have wondered whether or not it would appear. It could be the "getting" of something, the move from confusion to lucid understanding. And not always about something I pondered on. Sometimes that ah-ha is an obvious gift dropped into the muddle causing a ripple effect within, the end result of which is a smile without. See? It's a ripple. Thank you, Lord.
Ripple. It's one of those words you can say over and over and it starts sounding funny.
But none of those things are the moment I am referring to. The moment that has me intrigued is the one in which my feet touch the floor and I am up and walking. Every morning when I walk away from my bed I have one thing on my mind. "What made me get up?" It doesn't matter if I lay there for an hour deep in thought or five minutes. Sometimes it directly follows an ah-ha, sometimes not. I usually agree with myself that it is time to be up and get moving. Even if I am still tired, once I stand the energy finds me. But what actually moved me? I guess I will just have to keep getting up in the morning until I uncover the answer.
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
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