Lost In the Prairies.....Found by God

It's 6 am and I'm up.

Really. Can you imagine this night owl up?  I love the nightlife.  My tv shows are on.  My kids go to bed early (while not last night), so I can spend time with my husband in the evenings.  I can have friends over for a home party and still be able to clean up before bed.  I can get at the computer with little obstacles.  I love the nightlife.

Mornings are hard.  I'm woken abruptly by either my 21 mos old crying or playing his crib piano or by the annoying alarm on my Blackberry, which actually starts off nice and them explodes in some sound that should be at a nuclear power plant during a meltdown, not my home.  Then I have to wait for the coffee to brew (if I remembered to get it ready) or I microwave  yesterday's dregs and drink that (Yes, desperation calls for desperate measures).  Then I go down and get the 21 mos old settled, read some blogs or my current novel, maybe exercise or just veg in front of the extra tv.  During the week I get start getting Nic ready for school by 7:30 am and feed everyone breakfast.  On the weekends, sometimes I can actually sneak some extra sleep in before I get up and make everyone pancakes.

This is how my mornings used to be until January 28, 2011 when I read this.  I had already heard about Maximize your Mornings a few months before and in fact downloaded the book and perused it, but determined that it wasn't for me.  I even wrote about  how I wasn't one of those people who get early.  Then the baby started getting up between 5:30 am and 6 am.  I decided it was a God thing.  I decided to start using the morning time for prayer time.  It felt good to have that time alone with God.  Honesty though, this time still wasn't a regular time set out.  It was not intentional.  There were still many days that I wanted to do nothing, to sit in my morning mental wasteland.  

In January, when I started reading through my Bible in the 90 Day Challenge, I started to use that morning time to get my reading done.  I still struggled with time though.  Sometimes I got it done, more often or not I didn't.  Michelle's posts and Kat's book made me realize that I needed to intentionally set time out for God.  To actually get up and spend time in worship and prayer with Him.  Now that we're in the Psalms in the 90 Day challenge, I'm praying through them during that time.  I even have time to work through my David study I'm doing with the Babes.