Mrning Person?

Every morning certain thoughts come into my head, some help the process of getting me out of bed while others seem to make me curl up more tightly and feel that I need that extra warmth and 1/2 hour of sleep.

Here is the wake up list that pulls me out of bed:

Deadlines in school
Breakfast
Need to prepare self for public


But it is Sunday and I have decided that I am not going to church so none of these are applicable. Except breakfast, but I have an orange sitting on my bed...

Then occurred to me that God is supposed to wake us up. The thought of another day with serving God. It does not bring rapture to my mind. I have tried to wake up and immediately do liturgy, but this morning I think I understood what was lacking.

I think my interaction with God might be comparable to prewritten letters, or mass emails. You only scan for the information that might have something to do with you or something you need to know. But meaningful communication is personal, and the best, we all know, is hand written.

That is supposed to wake one up in the morning. The idea of personal communication from the Creator. Sort of the excitement and joy of waking up to a free summer day, or Christmas, or a meeting with someone who you really want to see. Or perhaps even waking up knowing that you have a very hard day in front of you.

What does not wake one up is meaningless form, like irrelevant prayer (unless one gets some feeling of self righteousness from it). Nor does a monotanus task do a good job to pull one from bed. But, Hey, God is not monotanous, irrelevenat and meaningless. we may think he is by worshiping and giving meaning to other things like food, money or the person next to us in our beds, but in the reality beyond our limited scope we should be saying with Paul

I count all things loss in comparison to the excelency of the knowledge of Christ. (found in Philipains 3)