Morning Devotionals

As a recovering addict, the most important thing that I am doing every minute of each day is feeling my emotions.

Naming them.

Talking through them.

Feeling them.

Then letting them go.

This is imperative.

My entire life, these same feelings and emotions have been shoved into an imaginary closet.

That will no longer work.

Shoving emotions in a closet, then searching high and low for humans to validate my feelings...

That didn't work out so well for me!

So, now I FEEL.

I started having morning devotionals.

When I wake up, I make my bed and open my drapes.

Then, I kneel on the rug that sits in the middle of my bedroom floor and I pray.

I open my scriptures to whatever they open to and I read out loud.

One chapter.

Then, I stretch my body.

I do yoga poses that feel right on that particular morning.

I finish by doing affirmations out loud.

These aren't set affirmations.

I seem to change then daily.

But, they are what I feel are important for that day.

I have found so much strength in this new morning routine.

I feel that I am literally having time with my God, purposely.

I am starting my entire day with my God.

I am living my whole truth and it feels amazing.

Years and years and years ago, I read a Bible scripture that tells us that God gives us peace like the world cannot.

IT'S TRUE.

There is not a human being that I could run to that could ever give me the peace that God gives me.

Ever.