Ah, it is a peaceful Sunday morning. The eastern sky is alight with gorgeous pre-sunrise colors. I sleepily look at the clock; it is a few minutes after 7 a.m. I am happy it is Sunday morning. I have about 30 more minutes in which I can drift in and out of sleep before I need to get up to get ready for church. As I move in my bed, my leg itches. I reach down to scratch my leg when suddenly something scampers across my fingers. Yikes!!! What was that!?? I tear off the covers. Crawling across the inside of my blanket is a brown spider about the diameter of a golf ball!!!
I fly out of my bed. I want to kill the spider, but it is too big to squish with my fingers. I grab some tissue paper, but then I decide I do not want spider guts all over my blanket. I scoop up my blanket and hurriedly get myself and the blanket outside. I shake off the blanket onto the patio. Out drops the spider. Hallelujah! It was still in the blanket and did not crawl out before being thrust out of doors.
I try to calm my racing heart down and quickly go back inside, slamming the outside door behind me to make sure the spider does not come back inside. I gaze at the sun rising brilliantly in the peaceful sky. What a beautiful morning. I lift up a quick prayer, "Thank you Jesus for the wake up call. It truly is a gorgeous morning and a spectacular sunrise." I sit for a short time in the kitchen soaking up the glorious morning sun. I look at the clock. It is time to get ready for church and to enjoy another day praising the Lord.
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