It seems like a simple question. Most of us start the day by getting out of bed but that really is not what I am looking for. How do you start your day? Some of you would answer with a big cup of coffee, that wakes you up and helps you feel like facing everything else. Some of you would say, I start my day by rushing around getting everyone ready. How do we start our day? Does it matter? My days start with alarm clock beeping at me. My thoughts begin racing with all I have to do, I get up and start the race for the day. I was struck this morning, how I do not want everyday to be a race. I want to enjoy the mornings I have looking in on my sleeping children, listening to the birds outside, and kissing my husband goodbye before he leaves. You see today is our gift. Each moment we have is just another reminder that God has given us more time to be the person he created us to be. I was thinking about those two words "to be" what if we could just "be" today? what if we were thankful for everything we were blessed enough to be part of? The good and the bad? How can we slow down the race to just "be"? how can I find the time with God and my family I so desperately ache for. It is does not come by starting my day racing. It comes by starting my day reflecting. it starts with a prayer, and quieting of my heart before God. Crying out to him, Today is yours- let everything I do, be pleasing to you, help me not take one thing for granted. Nothing- help me to look for God moments- because they are there. Psalms 46:10 states" Be still and Know that I am God" see that word again Be, we have to quiet our hearts and our racing minds and BE still before God.

I am working on starting my day differently, change is hard to do and old habits die hard but it is time to start my day more focused on who created me than what I have to do. When we are out of control God never is...but how much better is it when we start our day seeking the one who always is in control. I want to make it more intentional-

How do you start your day? are you running the rat race or are you meeting with the One who has gifted you with this day!