I don't know about you, but for me mornings can be rough. I would like to say that I rise every morning with positive thoughts rushing through my head...thoughts of that are pure and quite lovely.... If I am being honest, most mornings I rise with thoughts of frustration and aggravation coming from a restless night of sleep...tossing and turning mainly because I tossed in the towel for the day, so to speak and decided I was better off to just go to bed. If I am completely honest, I probably have that thinking cloud that they use in comic books popping up as I come to with all the punctuation symbols suggesting words that clearly should not be spoken. It's no wonder that my mornings are rough getting started.
Somewhere along the way, I allowed myself to be consumed with all the unpleasant noises of my life...like the deficit in my bank account, the unsightly mess of my home, the filthy windows in my car which I only remember to clean when I am rushing to one of many kid's activities (which by the way is why my house needs the yellow crime scene tape around it) and never do I have anything to clean them with...note to self: bring glass cleaner and paper towels to swim practice. You get the point...obviously I don't always rise thinking this is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice in it.
Folks are always tell me to stop to breathe and in fact I actually set the timer on my phone to remind me to breath...and when I do I need to make it a point to think about the positive things in my life...all the things that God has done to make my life joyful. When I allow myself to be consumed with the noises in my life that focus around fear and stress, they begin to takeover spreading through my mind like ivy on a fence covering up all the goodness that God has blessed me with. I pray today that God helps me to be more intentional about thinking thoughts of joy, love...thoughts that are pure and worthy of praise...enough so that I drown out the unpleasant noise in my life.
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