Awake! (ugh)

It is a sleepy morning. It's chilly in this apartment and I desperately did not want to get up. The irony is that in church this morning I'm giving a short reflection on the hymn "Awake! Awake and Greet the New Morn." A hymn I chose. (Instead of a single preacher this morning, four of us are giving short reflections on a favorite Advent hymn and the congregation sings the hymns.) After a few weeks of later-than-usual work nights, holiday parties, and stressed-out students, I'm tired. I don't want to greet this morning! And I'm even a morning person!

I don't mean to complain... :) I'm just caught up in the irony of my sleepiness and my task to talk about staying awake this morning.

I've been thinking about Advent as a spiritual wake-up call (thank you, John the Baptist and others yelling from the wilderness!), and how deaf I am to the alarms that go off ever-so-persistently in my life.

Anyone else keep hitting snooze (literally or metaphorically)?

Rubbing sleep out of my eyes and greeting the new morn,
Callista