Woke Up This Morning

 

This week, I want to invite us to lean in and listen to the prayerful words of hymns that are meant to be sung in the morning.  And we start with one of my favorites, “I Woke Up this Morning with My Mind.”

Here is the first verse and there is a wonderful video version above.

I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus
Hallelu
hallelu
Hallelujah.

What is on your mind this morning?

Do you feel centered in a calm grace of God or does life feel chaotic?

Does your mind race and run with an endless list of “to-dos” or perhaps your day is too wide open with too much free time?

After noticing, naming what is in your mind, what is in your heart?  Name and notice your prayer concerns/celebrations.  What is in your soul?  How are you and God doing right now? 

After surveying what is within you, please join me in a Prayer for Monday Morning:

God of every moment and each day, we enter another week.  As the hours unfold beckoning us to enter fully in ~ to explore, experience, and encounter the unknownness that awaits us.  Some praying these words on this Monday are full of enthusiasm.  There are celebrations of seeing family after being isolated this last year, birthdays, anniversaries, weeks at summer camp for children making new friends, and vacations to relax and renew.  Others woke up this morning with their hearts breaking and souls aching.  There are concerns that complicate our lives.  Those awaiting surgery, family members on hospice, financial hardships, grief, and pain that refuses to be processed. 

We pause on this Monday to survey the week before us. 

The events we know on our calendar.

The experiences we have no idea will happen on Wednesday or Friday.

All that is right now and might be in the hours to come.

Mondays can sometimes feel manic or make us feel like the cartoon character Garfield just wanting to pull the covers over our heads to hide.

Help us not just listen to the prayerful words of waking up with our minds on Jesus, but to stay on Jesus all this week.  To stay grounded and guided by the One we follow and the One who shows us the way to You, O God.   Take our lives and let them be blessed by Your presence.  Take this moment and this day and let it be centered in Your unconditional and unceasing love that leads us on and helps us stand.  Hallelu.  Hallelu.  Hallelujah!  Amen.