"When you first wake up in the morning, does your mind begin to race with what you need to do? Or maybe you ooze into the day slowly? Either way you can choose an image from Scripture to use as a waking image to sit in."
This idea comes from the biography of Dawson Trotman, founder of The Navigators, whose phrase, "His words, last words" meant that the last words he said to anyone before going to sleep were words of Scripture. Jan Johnson has modified this idea to "God's thought" to be the last thing to think of before sleep.
She suggests the following ideas ~ hopefully one will work best for you. She notes however, what comes out of your own meditation on Scripture ~ the pictures that the Holy Spirit makes especially really to you ~ will also work. So, start looking for them...
Zephaniah 3:17 ~ God singing over you and delighting in you~ See yourself sitting in the lap of God. The idea of God holding you gently, "quieting you with his love".
Luke 15:5 ~ The Shepard, Jesus, hoisting you, the formerly lost and desperate sheep, on his shoulders and cheerfully carrying you home.
Mark 7:33 ~ Jesus putting his hands on your face, cradling your jaw and healing all that has disrupted your hearing (especially from him~
John 13:23 ~ John 'reclining next to Jesus' at the last supper ~
Psalm 23:2 ~ The sheep lying down in green pastures because he is so satisfied and content, feeling perfectly safe from attackers ~
This becomes one more way we may grow to have the mind of Christ here and now everyday.
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