To begin the day.

[Betty]

Jesus, I desire to start this day with you.
And yet, my mind keeps flitting to so many things:
the projects I want to accomplish,
the people I want to talk to,
the people I wish I didn’t have to talk to.

I wonder. Are these things distractions to spiritual
concentration or invitations to see God in the ordinary?
I’m not sure. Jesus, I know that you are that Centre who
knows no distraction.
So I offer up my mental fragmentation to you, O Lord my God.
May my scatteredness become your gatheredness.
As I’m contemplating a thousand things, Jesus, may I somehow
be contemplating you.