daybreak

We have been reading Bonhoeffer's Life Together at work as a team and it has really sobered my fanatical checking of email and news first thing in the morning:

"For Christians, the beginning of the day should not be burdened and oppressed with besetting concerns for the day's work. At the threshold of the new day stands the Lord who made it...therefore at the beginning of the day let all distraction and empty talk be silenced and led the first thought and the first word belong to Him whom our whole life belongs."
~Bonhoeffer, Life Together