Attuning...

It is important for me to have a quiet moment in the morning, no matter how late I already am for work... I think this practice was slowly assimilated into my system through the years due to my college bible study guidelines, influence of mind-boggling mentors, books like "This time I dance," articles from the likes of John Eldredge & Max Lucado and crazy family mornings when I don't take the time to pray.

I have to take time to sit down, stare outside, listen to the thoughts brewing in my head, sip a cup of coffee, read more than 1 book (or 3, including the bible), respond to the paragraphs that grab me, connect it to my concerns, philisophize, marvel at learnings and discoveries, dream, plan what actions to take for the day, seek for wisdom to understand what's most important... then continue to pray as I take off. Sometimes I have to intersperse it with other morning routines such as taking a shower, but my mind has got to be fully allowed to go through all that process, or else, goodluck about having a good day.

The rest of my functioning hours would have to be peppered with praying, ruminating and writing on top of accomplishing and updating my to-do-list. There are days I don' get to do so and that's when I feel most wobbly.

I think it is important to be attuned as we take on the hoolabaloos of our days. There's so much going on that mostly, the stuff of our lives simply come and immediately go to waste. How about digesting things a bit so we get the benefits and avoid defeating the purpose so often?

For example, I just saw Shrek from my igoogle movie photo of the day, is that stimulus just gonna come and go without notice? How about the movie, what did it do to you when you watched it on the big screen? I know we don't have time for everything. But I have to say, when I saw shrek 1 and 2, it was refreshing to see Hollywood cartoons suggesting that character is more important than looking ideal. I remember shrek and fiona's ogre look and it seriously did not matter to me anymore whether they could transform into anything else more handsome or not. So why is it worth for me to take time to remember that right now? Because maybe I don't have to stress out so much about having such an ideal life. I mean, it's just a real mess right now that I gotta be an ogre to handle all these huge tasks...

So be it. I am an ogre right now... with a big heart, I hope. And i can't really clean my room until this is all over. But that's alright. For as long as I still have my quiet mornings...

And may this whole effort turn into a blockbuster. Amen.