Most hotel rooms are furnished with a notice that says “do not disturb.” The guest has only to hang this outside the door and he can sleep in peace as long as he wishes. Some people appear to have hung such a notice on their brains; they deeply resent anything like a new idea, or even a new and better way of considering familiar things. They are slumbering away their lives in a kind of semi-coma; repeating mechanically the time worn phrases and threadbare ideas of the past. Not dead, but sleepeth, might very well be said of them, and, indeed, their consciousness is a mental cemetery.
If you have been sleeping like this, pull yourself together, rub the mental sleep from your eyes. Now is the day of salvation. Start right in today to handle at least one important part of your life in a new way. Break at least one rusty fetter today, and once this process begins you will be astonished to find how far you will go, and what wonderful things you will attain to.
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Ephesians 5:14)
While this writer believes the scripture above refers those who have died and are awaiting heaven, the point of the piece is well taken. A wise man once responded to the question, “what were they thinking?” with the observation that the question assumes they were thinking. How many times do we just go through our days or certain circumstances without much thought at all? How often do we just act or react based on our preconceived ideas without taking time to really think about our lives or what we are doing?
What the writer is suggesting above is that we need to snap out of our daze of habit and routines and truly think and discern about our actions and responses to life and our faith. Instead of sleepwalking through life, let us treat each day as a new adventure and an experiment in how we can better ourselves , become closer to God and be a servant to others. Let us seize each day as a blessing from God that we are expected to use for our best good and that of others. Today, let us all shake off the dull comfort and the certainty of going through the motions to take up the great challenge of living each day to the fullest in joy, peace, service and hope. Then we will no longer muck through life in a mindless routine, but will live filled with love in the garden God gave us.
Carpe Diem,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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