What are your morning rituals? What does the first hour of your day look like?
My First Hour – 4:30 am – 5:30 am:
- Toilet break
- Say Good morning to pets gathered around me
- Brush teeth, comb away bedhead
- Take AM medicine
- Feed/Water pets
- Pray over church prayer request list
- Review texts, emails, social media
- Read and Write
- Respond to social media posts
- News media
- Scripture research and study, meditation and response in writing
My mind seems to be most awake and hungry just moments after I awake, so I feed it and exercise it starting usually within fifteen minutes after I arise.
Most of this first hour “ritual” is something I’ve done routinely the biggest part of my adult life except for a period from 1988 to 2007 when it was more hit and miss due to mental and spiritual issues with past and present trauma and mistakes.
The inconsistency was not an abandonment, though. It might have been due to an avoidance to a blinding spotlight focused on my misguided faith in the religious traditions of my upbringing and a lack of faith in a God who loves me unconditionally. I struggled with what I am calling spiritual nearsightedness brought on by my misunderstanding of God, my purpose, a definition of biblical righteousness and the gospel.
My spiritual blindness is being remedied slowly by a refusal to be conformed to the limitations of human beliefs, conventional and contemporary, religious or secular and being open to a change of my heart and my mind to love God as fully as possible and others unconditionally.
My morning routine helps me waken out of the shadows of limited experiential thinking into the light of unlimited divine wisdom. I am learning that knowledge begins in awe and grows into wisdom through the practice of mercy and love.
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Douglas Knight
I have the rich life full of a sinner wounded by misunderstanding and punishment but blessed by mercy and forgiveness.
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