My morning routine is a routine that I have come to really enjoy. I have a job that allows me to sleep past 6am and get up at 7 instead, which always feels way better in the morning, even if you are getting the same amount of sleep either way. After I get up, I usually grab my computer and see what has happened in the book of faces while I was at work and sleeping, and to see if my sisters have posted any new pictures of my boys! (which rarely happens, but I get word updates, so that is nice). I do this for about 15-20 minutes and then I go and make my breakfast, usually waffles because they are quick and I like a hot breakfast, and also because we bought them in bulk and have like hundreds of them! After I eat, I go and wake up my hubby. He isn't a morning person, but I believe we have found a good balance in order for me to do this. I open the door wide and let the light from the living room pour in, I go and turn off the fan and open our dark brown curtain to let more light in (which in the winter isn't a hole lot more) and walk out. This way I don't have to talk to him, he gets to wake up in his own timing, and we have plenty of time for devotions and for me to get ready for work. Once he is up, Jon comes out, gets on some shoes and warm clothes and takes our dog out, comes back in and makes his coffee, maybe has a glass of orange juice, and then we sit down and do our devotions. I love this time!
We started doing devotions in the morning because it is something that I always saw my parents doing together when I was growing up and I told Jon that I wanted to do that too. I wanted to be up in the morning with him and doing devotions and for our future kids to see that God is very important to us and our family, that He is the center of our lives and that we can't start the day off without first coming together with God.
Sadly, that was just a conversation we would have for a while. Then I got a job with the Hankin's and was working 50hrs a week and felt like I never saw him, so I would have him get up really early in the morning with me and do devotions with me just so I could have time with him, not necessarily with God.
Now, though, I am working for a new family, my mornings are more relaxed, I don't always have to wake Jon up and he is just as excited to read the bible and pray together as I am. God has turned this semi selfish act into one that we hate to miss. We are slowly reading every book of the bible, at random, and it has been really cool to see how God changes our perspective of Him along the way.
God, I believe now, has truly become the center of our Marriage. We don't talk and ask and demand in as selfish of ways as we did when we were first married. We more remind each other of what God has taught us, How God would treat each other, and we just love each other better. A healthy, God-centered love, and not a selfish love.
I am very thankful for my morning routine, and missing it this morning with my husband getting home today from the 8:08 preaching retreat. But I will look forward to tomorrow morning when we get to have this time together again!
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