Good Morning...

Just a few quick thoughts before I forget to note them down.

This morning, God woke me up with a wonderful little gift. But first off, for the first time since coming down from the mountains, I went to sleep without the TV on. I've always needed the background sounds of CNN or EWTN or Discovery to fall asleep, like an expensive nightlight, but last night I shut the TV off (in obedience to PK's advice of turning off the noise) and woke up so very peacefully refreshed. No rush, no hurry...I even got up earlier than usual considering that I'd gone to bed at 2 a.m. And, as I was saying good morning to God from under the covers...a little book among the pile of books on my bedside table caught my eye: Simplify and Live the Good Life by Bo Sanchez.

Now I've had this book for years, but I never quite appreciated it, unlike I did his other books, mainly perhaps my life at the time was a little too complicated and I had no inclination of "simplifying" it. But now that simplifying is precisely what I've been trying to do, I began looking for that particular book amidst the rubble of my huge collection, and got tired of searching. This morning, lo and behold, God gave it back to me. :-) And I'm reading it once again, and mentally checking off the chapters that - thank God - no longer apply because I've since dealt with those complications, only through His Grace.

At the same time, I'm reading two other books recommended by Sister Binx and finding them like a shot of adrenalin in my spiritual life: Simple Truths by Bishop Fulton Sheen (what a wise man of God indeed), and - a challenge to my prayer discipline that is immediately paying off even though I've only started it today - the Liturgy of the Hours. Thanks Binklette ;-)

Immensely fruitful day so far - I've already dealt with my e-mail, prayed twice, cooked my notoriously tedious palabok for four households, started reading Bo again at the same time as Bishop Sheen...and it's not even 3 p.m. yet. All because I turned off the TV.

And it's staying off.