I woke up 35 minutes before my alarm, and since I was meeting a friend for breakfast this morning, I started thinking about how I was going to skimp out of my “normal” morning routine. Then I had to laugh 😊 NORMAL ROUTINE! You’ve got to be kidding France! You started it yesterday! Yes, yesterday! My “normal” is or should I say WAS getting up, have my coffee while I read, spend time with God, then piddle around, make our healthy smoothie for breakfast, laundry, dishes, you know the routine. Then I exercise and get my “work day” started sometimes in the afternoon. The big PLAN – I figured I needed to get up an hour earlier and get on the treadmill, listen to personal growth videos or books, then after my three miles and workout are completed, I can have my coffee and read and talk to my sweet Lord. First of all, I did great yesterday, but let me tell you, in no way was I to have coffee, I was a hot mess so I went straight for my smoothie with all of those great nutrients in it plus I put extra kale in there because I needed all the help I could get. And forget sipping on it! I gulped it down like I hadn’t had anything to drink in days. Needless to say I did start my “work day” at 8:00 instead of whenever it happened which is a good thing.
Back to this morning…no workout but made time for coffee and reading. The entire time that I was in the shower I felt guilty for not sticking to my “new” routine. Oh the messages in my head. Do you ever get those? You should have gotten up even earlier, how do you expect to be a good example if you don’t do what you say you’re going to do? And you didn’t pray! Oh my goodness. Lord thank you for loving me where I am. Satan get out of my head! I went down this death thinking path – thank goodness the water was to hot in the shower that when I moved the knob, it instantly turned soooo cold that it snapped me right back to where I needed to be. Well, not exactly because then my thoughts were “Why on earth did people invent these things? There should be a hot knob and a cold knob, I’m going to change these things. Someone could get scalded in the tub. What if I had little kids here? When I have great-grandchildren I’ll have little kids here, I need to change these. Good grief, to much thinking so early in the morning.