Coffee and a Pipe

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 I love to sit in the morning stillness with a cup of coffee on the lanai with a pipe.  It is my favorite time of day.  I came out here this early morning before sunrise and had a cup of coffee along with a Balkan blend in my pipe.  I didn’t listen to music or watch a YouRube video but listened to the birds singing their morning songs.  I usually am not awake that early, but this morning I was.  

The hours between three and five in the morning are called the spiritual hours.  I usually wake up about three and then go back to sleep.  It seems sometimes God wants to talk to me.  I can’t explain my conversations with God.  I try not to disturb my wife who sleeps next to me, but sometimes something’s on my mind.  

I had been asked to do a Bible study and it took me a week to decide.  I woke her at three one morning telling her I’d do it.  Sometimes I wake up and just can’t get to sleep.  I woke at six this morning and this is one of those mornings I was wide awake.  I grabbed a pipe and made my coffee just to come out here and sit.  It’s been decades since I last did anything like a study.  

I just kind of think about it because I don’t want it to be about me.  I had an experience over 30 years ago, but that made me a very inward person and in many respects I still am quite inward.  I was quiet about my experience except with a very few.  Sometimes I thought myself to be too heavenly-minded to be of little earthly good except to wife and family.  

But I am slowly beginning to be more outward.  My life, while far from perfect is to be an example of Peace and Love.  I sit here this morning wondering how I do this.  It’s what woke me this morning.  I’m an example.  There is only one Master of perfect Peace and Love. I want to focus on Him, not me.  In fact I don’t want to talk about myself.  Ever since I said I’d do it I wondered whether I could.  

This is where I am this morning, but it seems it’s what God wants me to do.  I was asked.  I didn’t seek it but it cane to me.  This is what it seems I am to do.  I am to sit quietly and  it will come to me.  I’m at peace with my decision.  But I never went back to the church because my experience changed everything I was taught.  It would take me forever to explain how, but now my teachings reflect my different understanding.  

This one is quite personal this morning, but God wants me to focus on the Master of Peace and Love.  It will be about Him and my understanding.  It’s not about a religion, but more of a philosophy.  My Spiritually is more philosophy than theology.  The best teacher and example is Him.  I will focus on that.  So, this is my thinking this morning and it seems I am to let others know why I am wide awake at six this morning.  I am at Peace with my decision.  This morning it is my Angel pipe because it’s Sunday with a Balkan blend  and my coffee this morning is from Trader Joe’s.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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