When you woke up this morning what did you most look forward to doing?

“When you wake up in the morning, Pooh,” said Piglet at last, “what’s the first thing you say to yourself?”

“What’s for breakfast?” said Pooh.
“What do you say, Piglet?”

“I say, I wonder what’s going to happen exciting today?” said Piglet.

Pooh nodded thoughtfully. “It’s the same thing,” he said.

— A. A. Milne

On a recent yardsaling excursion I came across a family game by Food for Talk.  Their company tag-line reads: Bringing families together one conversation at a time.  Food for Talk Games contain a deck of cards and each card is inscribed with a thought provoking question to be answered by either the individual who drew the card or the entire assemblage.  What a brilliant idea!  Jullienne Smith of Orange County California is the inspired entrepreneur, television news reporter/anchor and radio talk show host who came up with the idea and, even better, executed on it to “make it so.”  My hat’s off to her!

Back to the Question

Ok, now that we have those credits and admiring words taken care of, back to the question at hand, which I repeat for you here and now:

When you woke up this morning what did you most look forward to doing?

Sometimes I wake up feeling really good or really angry or really sad.  I’m left wondering: Where’d that come from?

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

— Walter de La Mare

Too true.  And although those dream-instigated feelings may be hard to shake off, giving them the boot is important.  Jan Denise’s point of view might be just what’s needed to fill the void:

Watching the sun rise over the ocean is making it easy for me to wake up and get out of bed. I’m not jumping up to take a shower or go to work. I’m jumping up to greet the majesty of the day, of God, of me. The majesty reminds me that God’s in his heaven… and so am I. And, heaven is a lovely place to start the day, a lovely place to live.

Indeed! However, unlike author and columnist Jan Denise, most of us are sans-ocean view… still, she makes a good point, “jumping up to greet the majesty of the day, of God, of me” certainly sets the tone for a good day!  Denise’s sentiments are reflected in Monica Baldwin’s comments as well:

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

Oh yeah, I do love possibilities – they’re great incentive for getting on with my day!  Just for fun – imagine your own possibilities: what do you most look forward to doing? What possibilities can you imagine?  Do you have a great and wonderful idea ala Julienne Smith’s Food for Talk that you could begin to transform into reality? Or perhaps just a “fun” way to spend the day?  The possibilities are endless!  Grab one and go for it.

And on a more social note, would you dare to ask that same questions of the people with whom you break bread?  What kinds of answers do you imagine you’ll get?  (And what new possibilities might they suggest to you?  Or you to them?)

What possibilities await your attention today?