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The moment you open your eyes, a choice
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is already being made for you by
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default. If you do not wake with
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intention, you will wake into whatever
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rhythm the world has built. Your phone
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will pulse. Notifications will cue. The
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demands of 10 different people will be
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waiting. And before your mind is fully
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conscious, you will have surrendered the
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first and most valuable hours of your
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day to someone else's agenda. This is
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not laziness. This is a form of
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spiritual theft. In the ancient world,
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the wise were known by one thing. They
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woke early, not for productivity hacks
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or life optimization. They woke early
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because the morning is sacred. It is
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quiet. The world is not yet awake to
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claim you. And in that silence, a person
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can actually choose who they will be
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that day. David wrote of seeking God in
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the morning early. Not because God is
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more present then, but because that is
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when the human heart is most honest,
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most awake, most capable of true
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intention. When you wake and immediately
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scroll, when you wake and immediately
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rush, when you wake and immediately
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react to the noise, you have begun your
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day as a slave, not a king. But when you
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wake before the noise starts, when you
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sit in quiet, when you pray before you
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plan, when you read truth, before you
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are fed the world's lies, something
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shifts. You are no longer being lived.
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You are living. This is why fasting from
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your phone in the morning matters. This
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is why prayer before coffee is not
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legalism. It is sanity. You have one
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life. You have one day in front of you
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before anyone else touches it before
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anyone else claims it. The question is,
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will you meet it half asleep reacting or
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will you meet it awake, intentional and
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rooted in something deeper than your own
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ambition? That choice happens in the
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first moments. Everything else follows.
