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I got four hours of sleep last night.  A little less, to be precise.  My first thought this morning was coffee, right?

You know when you have been hanging out lots with a particular friend, so much that instead of thinking your own thoughts in a situation, you find yourself first thinking "oh man, if so-n-so were here, she'd say 'yada yada...'"  or "I know that so-n-so would think this was completely ___________ ..." (fill in the blank).

So this morning, instead of thinking first about coffee or how rotten the day is guaranteed to be or how it's just not fair!!!, I thought, "this is a day where I am going to need some some supernatural fuel.  God, I need your strength to get up out of this bed and tackle my day!"

The old-school song came to mind "Oh Lord in the morning do I direct my prayer unto you and do look up."  It is word-for-word out of the King James Version of Psalm 5:3 which says,

My voice shalt thou hear in the morning,

O Lord,

in the morning I will direct my prayer unto thee,

and will look up.

 

In thinking about all the comforts and amenities that I rely on daily that I will not have regular access to if we indeed end up living in an African village, it also has me realizing all the things I think I need that are really just substitutions for the true moxie I need to fuel my day.  Is it sinful to follow an automatic early-morning path to the coffee pot?  No.  But if I am going there instead of to the life-giving, soul-satisfying, joy-amping fountain and thinking that I'm going to get the same results?  Reality check.

 

I know God put these thoughts in my head this morning, and come to think of it, it probably has a lot to do with the fact that we've been hanging out together a lot more lately.

 

 

 

*Yes, this entire post was written while I was drinking coffee. 

And yes, Burundi does happen to grow a fair amount of coffee. 

But the the Hershey's syrup to jazz it up?  That's a different story, my friend.