On 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.