Upon Awakening

On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours

ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin,

we ask God to direct our thinking, especially asking that it be

divorced from self-pity, dishonest or self-seeking motives.

Under these conditions we can employ our mental faculties

with assurance, for after all God gave us brains to use. Our

thought-life will be placed on a much higher plane when our

thinking is cleared of wrong motives.

In thinking about our day we may face indecision. We may

not be able to determine which course to take. Here we ask

God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision. We

relax and take it easy. We don’t struggle. We are often

surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this

for a while. What used to be the hunch or the occasional

inspiration gradually becomes a working part of the mind.

Being still inexperienced and having just made conscious

contact with God, it is not probable that we are going to be

inspired at all times. We might pay for this presumption in all

sorts of absurd actions and ideas. Nevertheless, we find that

our thinking will, as time passes, be more and more on the

plane of inspiration. We come to rely upon it.

We usually conclude the period of meditation with a prayer

that we be shown all through the day what our next step is to

be, that we be given whatever we need to take care of such

problems. We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and

are careful to make no request for ourselves only. We may

ask for ourselves, however, if others will be helped. We are

careful never to pray for our own selfish ends. Many of usSaddlebackclub.com

have wasted a lot of time doing that and it doesn’t work. You

can easily see why.