Be Gracious

One night I heard a question in my spirit; “how can you start your morning well?” my first thought was “, I dunno”.

I have never considered myself a morning person, I would not say I am grumpy, but I don’t get excited either. I feel indifferent but grateful, of course. When asked the question, my morning was not particularly remarkable due to little or no sleep, and my “threenager” usually received the back end of it.

I sense the spirit knew we were both heading in the wrong direction because children don’t understand when you have not had any sleep; they wake up in the morning, and they are on 100% while you are still struggling to thrive on 2%.

While I was still pondering on my answer, I heard, “Be Gracious”. I knew I was not a gracious person. I have heard the word thrown around, and I have done the throwing a few times too, but at that moment, I had to look up the meaning of being gracious to be sure.

Now when you think about it, it sounds almost superficial to be gracious. Still, on the other hand, I knew that if I were just a little bit gracious, my threenager would respond positively to me. It would make my threenager morning just a tad better while, in return, making mine better; still no sleep, but it means I would not have a grumpy, moaning threenager who is probably thinking Mummy doesn’t like her.

Now, this doesn’t only stop with my threenager; I know this extends to everything I do. In the past, I have envied people who have been gracious to me or witnessed being gracious to others. I had always wished I could be more like that. Now, this is a call for me to be more intentional. I know I have some work to do, but I wake up each morning with this at the back of my mind, and it causes me to be more intentional about being Gracious.