Mornings

For those of you who don't know me, I am a morning person. I wake each morning, usually before the sun rises, and spend the first hour of the day reading some spiritual text. I currently am studying A Course in Miracles (www.acim.org). I follow my reading with meditation then writing in my journal - a practice I've now done for 25 years.

This time I spend each morning grounds me. It helps me make sure that I am connnected to the deepest, most powerful parts of myself as I head off into my busy day.

This morning I found myself wanting to extend the silence - loving the silence and peace of the morning.

I found the following quote by Leigh Mitchell Hodges:

"Whether one is twenty, forty or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning!...Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings."

How do you want to enter the door each day? Do you want to rush through the door anxious and fretting or do you want to step through the door grounded and centered?