THIS may look
like just a minor detail in our life, but it
actually plays an important, strategic role. If we know
how to start
our day well, most likely our whole day will run and end
well too.
Ignoring this detail will most likely leave us always
struggling to
prime ourselves to do what we are supposed to do the
whole day. It
would really be quite a drag.
thing, for sure, it is about the habit of greeting God
right upon
waking up, then thanking him at least for the sleep
regardless of how
it went, and then begin to offer the whole day to him.
That way we
start to burn the fire of love in us. Let’s
always remember that loving is the ideal condition to be
in, and the
earlier we set ourselves in it, the better. We are
actually meant for
loving. We demean our humanity if we fail to love.
And the first
object of our love should be God since he is
the very essence of love, and the source, end, pattern
and power of
love. We need to make acts of faith to be able to feel the
urge to
love God first and last, because only through him can we
love
everybody and everything else properly.
That morning
offering we make as we wake up will provide
us with the proper spiritual and supernatural tone to our
attitudes,
our thoughts, desires, words and deeds. It will remind us
that our
whole life is and should be an offering for it to be a
life of love
meant for us.
Yes, our life
ought to be spent as an offering. It has to
be lived as a gift, because it is first of all a gift
also from God to
us. In other words, our life has to mirror the life of
God himself,
whose image and likeness we are. Since God is love, is
self-giving,
then we too have to live in love and in self-giving.
Let us remember
to renew many times during the day that
initial offering we do as we wake up, so that the fire of
love will
continue not only to burn, but to also to grow until we
are totally
consumed by it at the end of the day.
That’s when we
can say we have completed or perfected our
offering of ourselves to God and to others. That’s when
we can say we
have loved fully. That’s when we can say we have
consummated our
humanity for that day.
We need to
renew our morning offering often during the day
since we have to contend with many things that will try
to ebb away
our love. We have our own personal weaknesses, our
laziness and
complacency. We also have to contend with the many
temptations around
that tend to make us self-centered instead of being
focused on God and
on others.
Renewing our
morning offering often during the day will
launch us into some kind of divine adventure where we
will be happily
and gamely confronted with challenges and trials. There
will be ups
and downs, successes and failures, etc. But then again,
as long as we
offer everything to God, all will just be fine.
Let us make it
a habit to make this morning offering
everyday as we wake up. When we manage to start the day
right, we are
bound to end that day right too, that is, with God and in
communion
with everybody else somehow.