I don't dare start thinkin'

I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.

I don’t dare start thinking in the morning.

If I thought thoughts in bed,

Them thoughts would bust my head –

So I don’t dare start thinking in the morning

I don’t dare remember in the morning

Don’t dare remember in the morning.

If I recall the day before,

I wouldn’t get up no more –

So I don’t dare remember in the morning

                               Langston Hughes (Blues at Dawn)

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and there was morning, and there was evening

and there was morning, and there was evening

on and on it goes

this life

a matter of waking

and eating

and living

and hurting

and dancing

and sleeping

and there are mornings, and there are evenings

that try our souls

mornings where the sun refuses to rise

and there seems to be

no path ahead

evenings when the sun refuses to set

and time drags on

and we drag on

carrying our burdens with us

sometimes, if we think too much

we might not get up at all

not knowing where we are going, not liking from whence we came

the road ahead obscure

the road behind twisted and foul

and yet

the sun does rise

and the sun does set

and time moves on

and we do get up

and life does go on

the rising

and eating

and living

and hurting

and dancing

and sleeping

and it is good

for every morning is Easter morning

every morning is resurrection now

every morning (and if truth be told, more often than that)

is a new beginning

we are constantly re-created

restored to our divine image

I remember the words of the old song

“in the morning, when I rise, give me Jesus”

In the morning when I rise

May we remember that life is Sacred

And we are Sacred Children

And Sacred is with us

and that even in these Covid-19 days

when the sun struggles to rise

and refuses to set

we can go with God

and be not afraid