A Morning Coffee Meditation

This week's topic is for all the coffee lovers out there. I don't know about you, but I don't wake up until I have at least 4 ounces of coffee in my body. With the first sip, I feel the fog and the haziness start to clear up. 4 ounces in, I've woken up. When I hit the 12 oz mark, now I'm ready to take on my day. A few years ago, I was at a healthcare convention when somebody I barely know comes over to me and he hands me a card and he says, "You look like a yeshiva guy. Maybe you can help me out. For years, I've been looking for the source of what's written on this card." He gives me this card. I've been keeping it in my wallet since I've gotten it over the past few years. And the card said, "Many people start their day with a brha shahako on a cup of coffee. Coffee is bitter. Sugar is sweet. The water is hot. The milk is cold. We say shak to remind ourselves that the bitter times, the sweet times when one is in hot water or when life is cool and comfortable, all these circumstances are directed and planned by Hashem. So, I liked what the card said. that I right away did a little googling trying to see if I could figure out what the source was. Unclear exactly where it came from. It seems like it's possible that it's from Riles Beerman. But regardless, I think it's an amazing concept. The idea of starting your morning realizing that everything that has been and everything that will be is from whatever happened yesterday orchestrated by Hashem. Whatever happened today is being planned by Hashem. But we have the ability to influence and to change what'll happen today. How's that? With our tila. How different would our morning be if instead of stumbling into dening, you know, blurry eyed, rubbing the sleep from our eyes, but we actually sat down for a few minutes and gave it a drop of thought. Whatever is going to happen today is being orchestrated by a kadesh and what I am about to do right now Davin has the ability to influence how my day is going to be. A great day starts with a great chakras and a great cup of coffee. But the chakras is the real cave. The chakras is what really sets the tone for the day. The Gomorrah tells us about the first the early not referring to the but referring to way way before that thousands of years ago the pious ones. The garbara tells us how before they would din they would sit and meditate and contemplate for a full hour before davening. Ding itself took an additional hour and then it took a third hour for them to come back down to earth for them to come back down from to the from the lofty heights that they reached. Now obviously that's a tremendous tremendous level. I mean to sit there an hour before domining prepping yourself for domining an hour domining and that you get to the point where it takes you another hour to come back down. Most of us are probably not holding there. We may not be able to spend an hour of meditation before chakras, but just imagine what it would be like if we didn't start domining rubbing sleep from our eyes. If we were actually awake and fully cognizant of what it is that we are doing. Imagine if while we're sipping our morning coffee, we actually gave a moment of thought as to what it is we're about to do. Let's try to live a little higher. Let's take a minute, 2 minutes while we're drinking our coffee before domining to focus on what it is we are doing to realize how much is actually riding on ouras and how much we could accomplish by aligning our heart, our mind and Now it's Fela.