Early Morning Meandering

This morning, for some reason, I was roused from my sleep at 4:30. The coffee pot that has brains hadn't even woken up yet.... I gave the "on" switch a nudge and wandered about lighting my candles, gazing out the window to see some of the night creatures returning to their resting places. Then I settled in for a prolonged time of conversation with the One who speaks in rhythms and patterns that often go unnoticed when "I" am in the midst of daily activities.



So now its just after 6 am... and I've been deep in prayer, wandering about the inner regions of my mind,and my emotions, and my relationship with God. The marvelous thing about all of this is that I don't need to do anything at all with any thought or emotion that surfaces -- I don't need to get up and take action upon anything.

It is a time to simply gaze at this interior landscape of ideas and images and wonderments about anything that surfaces. It is a time when nothing is more important than my presence before God.

God....who neither slumbers nor sleeps...draws me into a profound awareness of the dimension of life that flows in a stream which is eternity. In these moments when most of my "world" is still asleep, I can appreciate the shift into "kairos"...God's time. My sense of time in terms of minutes or hours and the necessary allocation of this or that hour to some particular task or commitment dissolves.

And....

Somehow I become more keenly aware of the only place in time that really matters...

Now...

Predawn....

Still before God...

Listening....

Savoring...

Nestled in Him and being given whatever He knows I will need for this day.

To You as you read this post: Wherever you are, whatever is before you, know that God is with you right NOW.