What Do You Hear in the Morining?

Sunrise, Charleston Harbor, Charleston, South Carolina

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There is something about the morning that makes our senses more attune to the world around us. Bacon smells better in the morning. The sky appears bluer in the morning.  And the birds sound livelier in the morning.

The day has not dulled our senses.

For this reason many of us hear the Lord better in the morning. It might be that there are not as many distractions. We haven't had our minds inundated with three hundred phone calls. We haven't watched multiple PowerPoint presentations. We haven't changed twenty diapers.  

Though the psalmist lived many centuries before us, his world must have been similar.  "Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust.  Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul."  Psalm 143:8 English Standard Version

It doesn't take long and the morning turns into the afternoon and the afternoon into the evening. It's easy to think that we will hear God's voice later (which may be true) but we miss an opportunity to hear him the first thing in the morning.

The morning that I took this picture there was the sound of dolphin swimming, waterfowl flying and a rowboat skimming the water. Had I not slowed down and enjoyed the morning I would have missed the sounds which probably would have made the view less spectacular.

May we hear God's voice in the morning telling us how much he loves us. And may that voice of God make our day spectacular.

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Text and Photographs ©Copyright 2012-2015 Douglas P. Brauner.  ARR.