A Breakfast of Words
I LOVE breakfast – it is absolutely an essential part to my day. Eating a simple breakfast of fried eggs each morning gives me lean proteins and nutrients I’ll need to stay feeling full and energized all morning. Oh, and don’t forget the piping hot, dark coffee. Yes, a morning with coffee and eggs is a morning that proceeds a beautiful day. Breakfast… I guess that’s why they call it that - you are “breaking” your “fast” — it is the longest distance between meals each day – from 6pm to 6am – its a full 12 hours of fasting! Don’t you want something GREAT to break the fast and begin the day afresh?
What goes into your mouth is important, but Jesus says that what comes out of your mouth is even more important. In fact, the words you speak, not your diet, are what make you healthy. Just look:
“What goes into a man’s mouth does not make him ‘unclean,’ but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him ‘unclean.’” — (Mt. 15:11)
What is the FIRST thing OUT of your mouth each morning? Can you even remember?
Think about it for just a minute. Each and every night you close your mouth, and you live in silence for many hours. In all the rush and noise of this world, you make it a daily habit to spend close to a 1/3 of each day in utter darkness and silence. Kinda beautiful, eh?
But what breaks that “fasting” from words? How do you greet the new day? Is it with blessing or cursing?
Why not start this new year with a resolution to have a “Breakfast of Words” – give yourself a simple phrase or sentence to greet each new day.
I had noticed that my days were starting off on the wrong foot – and I came to believe it was the mindset in which I was approaching my days – if the first things that roll through my mind or off my tongue are, “Shoot – I’ve forgot to call that guy yesterday,” or “I feel groggy and awful,” imagine how the rest of my days went! I had enough - I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.
Since then, I’ve been doing a little “holy experiment” trying it out, and I’ve lived to tell the tale. And I’ve got to say – its GREAT!
Each morning, I’ll say this as my eggs are cooking:
“Glory to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit – as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever, AMEN.”
I don’t know about you but if you say that, even if you begin without “feeling like it” – by the end, you just might have a slight smile on your face. You remember that no matter how you might feel, or what might be going on in your life, a regular diet of these words (or something like them) will change your day. And if you can change your day, you can change your week, month, year…even your life.
Its the simple things like this that make the biggest difference. New Years Resolutions don’t have to be BIG – they just have to be consistent.
Take a daily “Breakfast of Words” – start your day’s dialogue in a place of joy, centering, and purpose. And see what happens!
