{me and Lydia. 7am. today.}
It is 8:16 and I have successfully walked through my neighborhood, taken a shower, dressed (and fixed my hair!), made breakfast (steel-cut oatmeal with bananas), done the dishes and checked my email. Can someone send me an award or something?!
Seriously, I can’t believe how much this getting up at 6am to walk has helped me. I still DETEST the actually getting out of bed, but the return has been so worth it. The alone time does wonders for me and I’m also spurred on by wanting to finish listening to my book (The Shack…*shiver*).
My main problem has been that I get a bad attitude in the morning when my kids “make” me get out of bed. Or if my husband doesn’t take “his turn” in making the kids breakfast. I mean, how completely shallow am I? Asa would get up at 6:30, Lydia around 7 and I would let them play in my room so I could sleep (ie…get grumpy that they were not letting me sleep) until 8 when I’d make them breakfast. I cannot believe I just confessed this to you.
This past week, I have had no grumpy attitude. I’m awake and I make breakfast. And we all have a happy morning. It is a miracle. Which it really isn’t. It’s just me being purposeful. And I feel bad that it’s taken me this long to figure it out.
All the way back in January I told you how I downloaded Inspired to Action’s ebook and really wanted to get up early and have a big Bible study and exercise program and all that. Well, it’s taken me ALL THIS TIME to figure out what works best for me. I think that’s the whole point…you have to find out what works best for YOU. Just because so-and-so gets up early and reads 40 pages from the Bible while sipping the homemade tea she grew out of her own organic garden doesn’t mean that’s what you should do.
BUT. I do think you should do SOMETHING. I just read a post by Raising Arrows (found her on Top Ten {Tuesday} and LOVE her!) about how God desires order and purposefulness to our day. This should not be a revelation to me as “purposefulness” is important to me (ie. Impress Your Kids). But for some reason it stuck out to me. I tithe and give a portion of my money to God. I try to be a good steward of the money and resources God has given me. Why would I not work at being a good steward of my day? I have been WASTING chunks of my day in lieu of half-sleep?!
What inspires you to action? What makes you get up and go? Or what is stopping you from doing so?
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I’ll be in the Dominican Republic NEXT Monday with World Vision! I’d love it if you’d pray for us. Follow us on twitter #WVinDR.
linked to Inspired to Action’s Motivation Monday!
