On Devotion; What Did You Eat For Breakfast Today?
As it is pouring snow outside and I anticipate a few days of complete silence and confinement I turn my thoughts towards devotion:
Whatever your faith practice is, how do u begin your mornings?
My heritage in the Korean Protestant church left me with the bittersweet aftertaste of the early morning prayer meeting which I will spend the rest of my life trying to emulate but never really fully achieving. I just like sleep too much. That’s my problem.
How bout you? Do you begin your day in a book of common prayer, a lectionary, in stillness, meditation, on your knees, lectio divina? May I ask how long you do this for. It challenges me when I hear of those with greater meditative abilities than I. And those who find great strength from prayer – these are the exemplars of devotion for me…
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I wake up, stumble out of bed, wash my face, take out my retainer, enter the kitchen, get attacked by my hyper dog, say good morning to my family, plonk myself on the couch, watch TV for two hours, have breakfast, sit in front of the computer for two hours, then have a shower.
That’s my typical non-school day morning. Nothing religious in there at all.
Mornings before work I typically get on the computer and surf the internet right before I head off. I didn’t use to do this, but beginning in Bellingham when Columbia bought out my company we had later mornings, but I found myself waking up at the same time, so to rid it, I went online. Not really much of a prayerful person.
Mornings where I don’t work, I try to wake up at the same time to keep myself on the same pattern. I either watch a movie or read a book, and no matter what I read or watch, it always turns out great, even if it’s a crappy book or a terrible movie. But then again, I am a morning person.
This will probably post twice. Duh on me. I get up feed the dogs. I then pray the morning prayer from the liturgy of the hours. On the way to work, I pray the rosary. I am religious. Hmmm. How did that happen. It starts with one devotion and gradually you are religous.
Peace
Marquis
Well, I’m off and on. I grew up to my grandparents having long devotions and prayer time first thing in the morning, and last thing at night. Ususally I start the morning while in bed with a Thank You prayer, get up and go about the business of washing, doing the teeth thing, coffee, computer, then a fuller Bible Study and prayer time before I go to work. I love listening to gospel music in the car, and that takes me back into prayer and meditation till I get to work.