mornings

"Every morning is a fresh opportunity to find God's extraordinary joy in the most ordinary places." - Janet L. Weaver

I wake up to another beautiful morning, feeling lighter, freer, more blessed than ever.

God's brand new morning for me. Brand new.

I quote one of the most beautiful, most full-of-promise passage in the Bible:

"This, when I ponder, is what gives me hope:

God's love abides unceasingly. 

His compassion is never consumed;

every morning it is renewed.

And His love remains ever faithful.

'My portion is God,' says my soul.

'On Him shall I rely.'

God is good to those who hope in Him, to souls who search for Him.

It is rewarding to wait in silence for the Lord's salvation."

-Lamentations 3:21-26

I am very much a morning person. 

I love mornings! Sunny ones, especially.

They reveal so much of God's love, refreshed, renewed for the new day. Mornings reveal how God is such a faithful God. A God who blesses us with a new day to live, a new morning to start anew, a new opportunity to live life and live it to the fullest.

Not many are as blessed with a new day, a new morning.

Not many appreciate new mornings as new opportunities to start anew. Not many see life or God that way.

Not I.

I love waking up to either the chirping of the birds or the crow of the rooster (do hens crow too?). On ever better mornings, I even smile to waking up to the noisy barking of the dogs (trust me, am not that much of a saint, enjoying the barking of the dogs? There are mornings when I want to throw my pillows at them, too! Shucks, pillows lang? Um, my slippers? Hahaha)!

Nonetheless, the point being, I love mornings. I love waking up early! No matter how late I sleep the night before, I almost always wake up at a little past 6! I just feel like not wasting another minute of the beautiful day to doze off till late in the morning, missing out on all the morning sounds of nature.

More so, I don't like missing out on the early morning realization and reminder of God's love, all refreshed and renewed, for the new day that He's blessed me with.

No matter how bad the day before is/was, I look forward to the new morning to shake off that bad day out of my system, and start over. No matter how much hopelessness looms in my heart at the end of the day, I look forward to the new morning, when I know God will once again reveal to me His faithfulness, His unconditional love.

And by knowing such, I am good to go! I am once again ready to face the challenges of the new day, rejuvenated, and confident! After all, if God is with me, who can go against me?

Ahhh, pure bliss in new mornings.