The truth about Morning

The truth about morning is that it is the small light of beginning

Breaking through again and again

Mark Nepo

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There is something about mornings for me

evenings my mind is still chaotic

the events of the day still roiling around

stirring the waters of my soul so that all is cloudy

perhaps it is

that in the night the waters settle

and when I wake I can see more deeply

at least I often see differently

and oddly enough

although at times the mornings plague me

as I wake with my greatest worries floating at the top of my consciousness

at other times morning is when

a glimpse of newness shines through

when the glimmer of hope

of God’s love

breaks through

and the promise of

re-creation

reconciliation

restoration

breaks through

and I emerge out of the deep water of sleep

“baptized” and cleansed

and ready to begin again*

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Thanks to Mark Nepo for this concept

p. 390 The Book of Awakening