“Make Your Bed “by Admiral William H. McRaven is a speech delivered at the commencement address to the graduates of the University of Texas at Austin on May 17, 2014. Later this speech became a bestselling book. The theme was that if you can accomplish one thing right at the start of the day, it will greatly improve your chances of doing greater things right during the rest of the day.
There is a poem I enjoy that follows the same theme.
God in the Morning
Ralph Spaulding Cushman
I met God in the morning
When my day was at its best,
And His presence came like sunrise,
Like a glory in my breast.
All day long the Presence lingered,
All day long He stayed with me,
And we sailed in perfect calmness
O’er a very troubled sea.
Other ships were blown and battered,
Other ships were sore distressed,
But the winds that seemed to drive them
Brought to us a peace and rest.
Then I thought of other mornings,
With a keen remorse of mind,
When I too had loosed the moorings,
With the Presence left behind.
So I think I know the secret,
Learned from many a troubled way:
You must seek Him in the morning
If you want Him through the day!
“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”
Give it some thought.
Gary