“The time just before dawn contains the most energy of all hours of the day. This has helped me become an early riser and an early doer.... When I wake to see that it's light out already, I feel like the world has started without me.”
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“If people were meant to pop out of bed, we'd all sleep in toasters.”
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Are you an early riser or the sort of person who prefers a lie in and leisurely start to the day? I started a new job in August which involves a longer commute Monday to Friday. I was full of trepidation about this, how would I cope getting up earlier (I really like my sleep and struggle if I don’t get enough!), would the change in routine for the family have adverse affects, would I hate the hour-long drive…
Several weeks into it and I’m enjoying it a lot. I’m not usually too tired to function in the mornings, I have time to sit and have breakfast and some quiet time before waking everyone else up, the family are adjusting well to the new routine and are actually benefitting from being up and about slightly earlier than previously, and I enjoy the drive to work.
I’ve found it particularly important to have that little bit of time to myself before I wake everyone else up. I get up, have a shower, get dressed then go downstairs to let the dogs out and get breakfast for myself. I do a lot of thinking at that time of day, during the lull between getting up and the ‘activity’ of the day beginning. It’s my time for talking quietly to God and putting the new day into his hands. My day never goes quite so well when I’ve been in too much of a rush to have that time. I always feel there’s something missing when I’ve rushed headlong into the day.
“Morning by morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; morning by morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.”Psalm 5:3
3 comments:
I loved reading this!
Thank you, Pauline, for your thoughtful and thought-provoking comments x
Thank you for your thoughts Pauline, you are so right!
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