Anna M. Aquino

            Picture it, it’s Sunday Morning and you have got to get to church on time because there are people depending on you.  Your spouse is half asleep lollygagging around. Your children have this crazy obsession with finding the one shirt in their closet that doesn’t fit and has holes to wear.  You have to get your make up on and will have to do so in the car.  You are running around trying to finish your hair routine but you realize you’ve been walking around with the mousse sprayed with a perfect peak on the top of your head.  The dog gets out and takes off, and then you and your spouse end up in a stupid fight over a topic you won’t remember in two days.  Your kids are now crying, and you enter the church doors in near tears; all the while knowing that you are about to slap on a fake smile, and pretend that your morning was fabulous.          ...

            It was an early morning this morning.  Dan typically works 2 nd shift, but for a list of reasons, he’s working 1 st for the next several weeks.  While Dan had the choice as to when to start his time on 1 st he opted to work 2 nd yesterday, and 1 st today which gave him roughly 4 hours of sleep.  I always do my best to stay up with him.  So this morning I went to bed at 1 am and was up with him at 5am.              It was in this ‘I am half asleep’ moment that something popped into my mind.  I think God loves to speak to people in that half asleep stage because they know they are too tired to conjure anything or block themselves from hearing from God.  What I felt I heard God say is in reference to this exchange in the Bible. Exodus 3:13-15 (ESV) 13  Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and...