Wonder and Epiphany

Getting up with all the things which are going to be demanded of us in the day is a prescription for a day somewhere between mediocre and horrible.  And, then before breakfast throw in the faces of the difficult people expected to be in your path and crawling back into bed seems like the smart thing.  When we get too focused on the expected visible external pressures and stresses of the day, we can hardly expect to experience holy epiphanies and moments of sheer wonder.     

What might be a better choice is found in a moment in the morning for sitting in the presence of the Holy One who blesses us with sleep and then blesses us again by waking us up as the sun begins to light the sky.  While we may have our own spiritual routine for those moments with God, we can also venture into some new territory by offering ourselves to Him in a different way.  Instead of boring Him daily with the details of those things we dread, we might try asking Him to bring some awe and wonder in our daily experiences by bringing people into our lives who will bring blessings to us as well as some others whom God can bless through us.     

But, to enter into such a different spiritual discipline could be a dangerous thing.  We might find ourselves being hindered as we seek to stay on a time schedule because He brings into our routine interruptions which He plans to use to answer our prayers.  We will have to be careful that we do not show a lack of patience and grace when He is working to provide for us moments which we will count at the end of day as moments of sheer wonder and holy epiphany.