Up when the alarm clock rings. Ready for a start on the day's activities. Mornings represent a new beginning, a time for renewed vitality and a fresh perspective.
Often there are moments in a crowded day when I wish I could slip in an additional "morning" time. Who hasn't wanted to start again? Recharge the batteries. Get some fresh insights. The truth is, even at the end of a long day, or if one happens to feel drained of energy, a kind of morning experience can take place. Even in the middle of the night we can have a new start, a resurgence of vitality, a dawning of ideas. Such things don't have to wait until sunrise. Prayer makes them possible anytime.
That's not to say that one's prayers are a way to create new beginnings or new energies, any more than the sounding of the alarm clock creates the morning. But prayer rouses and lifts one's thought to discover what is already true: God, divine Spirit, is present, and is expressing life in each of us, endless, invigorating, spiritual life. A life rich with purpose and love.
