And while we’re chatting, do you want another cookie and to join me in playing a game on my iPad, friend?

The sun peeked through the darkness.

The storm was lifting. Hope filled the air along with the fresh scent of life, stirring, awakening with the rain. It was a new season.

Today.

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I stretched, removed the covers from my bed and sat up, looking around me blankly. What would this new day, this new season bring, now that this storm was lifting, I wondered? I poured my coffee and asked these questions of God, and his whisperings startled me.

There is so much in my life that He is longing to awaken. How about in yours?

Be alert, be present. I’m about to do something brand-new. It’s bursting out! Don’t you see it?

The Message

And how do we awaken, if we, like Sleeping Beauty, have been spiritually resting for a few years?

Try this: As the song below plays1 and as you sit with your morning coffee, pondering this new day or this new season, what stirrings in the dry soil of your heart, of seeds coming to life, do you sense?

Oh! And she sings of repentance in this song, but I wouldn’t recommend THAT or anything! In my humble opinion, there doesn’t seem to generally be any need to travel down any spiritual path as far as repentance would take us.

Please!

I definitely recommend turning back and hanging out with the rest of us who don’t want to walk THAT far! And anyway, the part of the song about repentance doesn’t apply to me, thankfully! (It may, however, apply to you, of course.)

True repentance [is] not merely . . . sorrow over sin, but . . . a “sweet sorrow” arising from a new, awakened delight in the beauty of God.2

John Piper – Desiring God

PS – I’m not sure exactly what John is talking about here, but it sounds deep, and it seems to fit, so I thought I would include it!

You’re welcome!

Good luck!

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1 She’s a little serious in this song. You’ll want to offer her a cookie and tell her, “Hey, Lady! Relax a bit!” (At least I do.) The point is that it’s good to wake up spiritually. She gets that part, so we can at least learn that bit from her!

2 And may you awake a little more with each poke repentance gives our sleeping form, friend.