Since I have no television in my Fresno apartment (and quite frankly don't want one!), I watch the "live stream" of EWTN on my computer. Most nights I fall asleep without remembering to turn it off. I've become used to waking up when I hear the church bells go off at the start of Mass, which is 5AM on the West Coast. Then I lay on the bed and listen to or sit up at the computer and watch at least through the homily, when I get ready for work, hopefully early enough that I'll have time to attend Mass in person in 6:45AM. It sounds like it wouldn't be hard to do, but I am really slow to get going in the morning--it's probably age. (Yeah, it can't be that I'm just lazy! lol). When I do miss the morning Mass, chances are I'll go in the evening if I can get my work done by 5pm, which is usually the case.
Anyway, this morning I stirred at the sound of the church bells then dozed for a couple of minutes only to awaken again when the lector was reading the Old Testament reading where God is referring to the Israelites as a "stiff-necked" people. I propped up my head to check the time and ---you guessed it---I had a stiff neck! I must have slept wrong somehow. It's going away, but I thought it was funny enough to post about this morning. Now I'll probably be meditating all day on how stiff-necked I can be sometimes when it comes to following His commandments.
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