Day of Birth a Preparation for the Future
Twenty-seven years ago on this day, I woke up for the first time. I emerged from arguably the most comfortable, warm, dark place you can find on earth to an unwelcome blinding light, unsettling loud noises from people I didn’t know and a shocking cold. I cried. Hmm, sounds like every morning since then.
My sworn enemy in life – the one inanimate object whose only purpose is to rip me out of a complete state of comfort - the alarm clock. Since I absolutely cannot handle the beeping, the lesser of two evils is the radio. However, waking up to an obnoxious morning DJ prank calling some poor unsuspecting American—who’s probably just trying to make some coffee and get their families out the door with as little crisis as possible—all in the name of “entertainment?” Well, it’s just sick. However, I believe God gave me a special little birthday present this morning. I woke up exactly one minute before my alarm was to go off. Ah, awakening to peaceful silence and the sun streaming through my window. If you gotta get up and go to work on a Monday morning, it was about the best way one could ask for.
Yes, I’m going to quote Switchfoot again. I just cannot stop listening to their Beautiful Letdown CD. The more you listen to it, the more the music and the lyrics embed themselves in your mind and your heart – and the more you love it because it’s become a part of you.
“Welcome to the planet. Welcome to existence. Everyone’s here. Everybody’s watching you now. Everybody waits for you now. What happens next? I dare you to move. I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor. I dare you to move, like today never happened before.” – Dare You to Move
Twenty-seven years ago on this day, I woke up for the first time. I emerged from arguably the most comfortable, warm, dark place you can find on earth to an unwelcome blinding light, unsettling loud noises from people I didn’t know and a shocking cold. I cried. Hmm, sounds like every morning since then.
My sworn enemy in life – the one inanimate object whose only purpose is to rip me out of a complete state of comfort - the alarm clock. Since I absolutely cannot handle the beeping, the lesser of two evils is the radio. However, waking up to an obnoxious morning DJ prank calling some poor unsuspecting American—who’s probably just trying to make some coffee and get their families out the door with as little crisis as possible—all in the name of “entertainment?” Well, it’s just sick. However, I believe God gave me a special little birthday present this morning. I woke up exactly one minute before my alarm was to go off. Ah, awakening to peaceful silence and the sun streaming through my window. If you gotta get up and go to work on a Monday morning, it was about the best way one could ask for.
Yes, I’m going to quote Switchfoot again. I just cannot stop listening to their Beautiful Letdown CD. The more you listen to it, the more the music and the lyrics embed themselves in your mind and your heart – and the more you love it because it’s become a part of you.
“Welcome to the planet. Welcome to existence. Everyone’s here. Everybody’s watching you now. Everybody waits for you now. What happens next? I dare you to move. I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor. I dare you to move, like today never happened before.” – Dare You to Move
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