Staring the Day Right (-Mindedly)
(5:30am) It’s interesting to watch your thoughts in the first few moments upon waking. Your eyes are not yet open, but your thoughts race ahead imagining all the many ways you might find physical and psychological comfort in the day ahead. That’s what the day’s purpose seems to be: to fill that deep sense of lack, to “put by [our] suffering” (W-pI.182.2:2). To numb, the best we can, our relentless feelings of homelessness. We seek a home in food, in games, in the pursuit of specialness – “A thousand homes he makes, yet none content his restless mind… There is no substitute for Heaven. All he ever made was hell” (W-pI.182.3:3,6,7). This is why starting the day spending a little quiet time with the Holy Spirit can be so helpful. (M-16.2:6) I like to begin each day with this quiet thought, that Rose Marie once said in class: “Today is another opportunity to weaken my identification with the ego.” It gives my day purpose and meaning, and an underlying sense of joy.
