"You need to spend some time with God this morning and then let your day go."
I can start my day two different ways: the way I usually do which means rushing through my morning preparing for work and thinking (or worrying) about how I'm going to control everything to get what I want, or by sitting quietly in meditation and prayer and turning my will and life over to my Higher Power.
You can imagine how the first way goes. I bitch my way through traffic, enter work defensive and resentful and am at odds with others and myself throughout the day. After work I fight my way through traffic again and arrive home exhausted and on edge. If I don't go to a meeting, I take these feelings to bed with me and wake up in an uneasy mood. This is what living in self-will is like.
The second way is definitely the easier, softer way and how different the same day goes when I begin it with God. By starting with prayer and meditation, I connect to God and turn my will, life and day over to His will and care. Relieved of the bondage of self, I now go about my day from the perspective of service, and suddenly my day (and life) takes on a deeper meaning. The result of this is fulfillment, serenity and true purpose. And it all begins with God. And it begins every morning by making the right choice.
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Copyright @ 2013 Michael Z
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
one thing I learned about starting my day:
its ok to make plans, but once I set them in stone and expect them to happen my way,i believe God laughs and says,"oh, really???"
im gonna guess ya'll know how good setting my plans in stone works.
but the best thing for me to do is start each day with a chit chat with the Boss Man. im not the Boss Man.
I hear ya tomsteve, ... ... ... I've been very busy lately preparing our house to sell ... nearly every daily agenda I've made for myself has been thrown off-kilter by something that just didn't go right ... Glad I have this program, cause some of these boogered up problems would have definitely caused me to drink in the past ... and at the end of the day, like you, I figured the Boss man was laughing His rear end off ... LOL ... here are a few of my experiences:
- I just finished a week long project of sanding and staining and putting lacquer on a stair well ... then my doggy decides she has to run downstairs for something ... yep, paw prints in on 12 of 14 steps that were in various stages of drying ... had to re-sand and re-lacquer ...
- I went to mow the yard (2 hour process) ... one of the 3 blade spindles melted ... 3 spindles and 3 blades later at a cost of over $200 bucks ... and 3 day late ...
- I went up to eat one night after about a 10 hour day and the wife turned on the garbage disposal and 'hummmmmm ...' it was seized up ...
- I went to clean windows ... and crap, 905 of them had paint cracking in the window sills ... yep, scrape and caulk and re-paint ...
There are several more but I'm getting depressed thinking about all the lost time ... oh well, guess the Man upstair is teaching me patience ... Time to say another Serenity Prayer and get back to work ... ciao
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
