Clyde Lee Dennis here, and today in our seven good minutes extra segment, we're reflecting

on this beautiful truth. In the quiet sanctuary of morning, before the world awakens its demands,

you have the sacred opportunity to remember who you are and choose who you will become. This quote

speaks to the profound potential that lives in our morning hours.

There's something almost mystical about the early morning, that liminal space between sleep and

full wakefulness, between the private self and the public self, between yesterday's patterns

and today's possibilities. The word sanctuary is particularly meaningful here. A sanctuary is a sacred space,

a place of refuge and renewal. When we approach our morning as a sanctuary, we're creating

holy ground in our own lives. We're saying that this time, this space, these moments,

belong to something deeper than productivity or efficiency.

They belong to our soul's need for connection and clarity.

Before the world awakens its demands, before the emails start flowing,

before the responsibilities call, before other people's priorities become our urgent tasks, we have this precious

window. In this window, we're not yet caught up in the momentum of doing. We can simply be. We can

remember what matters most to us, what we value, what we hope to contribute to the world.

This remembering isn't just nostalgic, it's restorative. In the busyness of life,

we can lose touch with our essential self. We can become so focused on meeting external expectations

that we forget our own inner compass. The morning sanctuary gives us space to reconnect with

that compass, to remember not just what we need to do, but who we

want to be as we do it. And then, there's the choosing. Each morning offers us the opportunity

to consciously choose who we will become that day, not who we were yesterday, not who others

expect us to be, but who we want to become. This is the power

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