Not all of us greet the morning with a smile, enthusiastically leaping out of bed to welcome the new day. For many of us, myself including, it takes a while to blink away the cobwebs of sleep and to prepare ourselves for what the hours ahead might bring. Learn, though, to give thanks and commit the day to God, if only in the briefest of one-line prayers, and – as the following audio recording, from my CD Expressing our Needs in the ‘How to Pray’ series reminds us – we will gain a sense of perspective that shapes all.