75 - A Morning Song

ALMOST SPRING MUSINGS

Do you sense the same urgency I feel? Do you need a project? Do you need to organize the files, clean the closets, clear out the excess that accumulated over the long winter? And do you have trouble beginning? I do. Now is the moment to draw upon God’s strength to begin anew.

Seventy-Five

A Morning Song

Awake and praise the Eternal!

Awake and throw back the covers
That obscure your potentials,
Smothering quilts of before
That stifle change.

Awake and praise the Eternal!

Awake from uneasy dreams,
Awake from predawn murmuring
Alert to a new day,
Poised with renewed opportunities.

Awake and praise the Eternal!

Awake from dulled senses,
Muffled winter tedium;
Awake to returning warmth
That rouses your dormant soul.

Awake and praise the Eternal!

Awake as a child awakens,
Hands unfolding, grasping for the day
A shout of joy, feet kicking,
Eyes blinking in newborn sunlight.

Awake and praise the Eternal!

Awake to this new day, this gift
To share out, more than you can hold.
Awake with a hunger to learn and to do,
To respond, and praise God’s name.