The Heart Starter

The Heart Starter, the hallowed name some people give to their first cup of coffee for the day.

Some Christian traditions speak of being converted each morning as if each new day was the first day.

In some cultures, the sun must be sung up into the sky at every dawn because each morning the sun must be asked to give birth again to the world.

In some literature the sleep at night is the little death from which we are resurrected each day.

Maybe Jesus really meant it when he talked about being born again. Meant it that every morning we must be born into a new day to begin our lives again.

And maybe William Blake knew his poem, ‘Infant Joy’ was about more than the joyful birth of a child. Maybe he knew it contained the question that we must all ask ourselves at the start of each new day, ‘What shall I call thee?’ And maybe the answer that is possible for the new birth into each new day is joy.

Infant Joy
"I have no name:
I am but two days old."
What shall I call thee?
"I happy am,
Joy is my name."
Sweet joy befall thee!

Pretty joy!
Sweet joy but two days old,
Sweet joy I call thee:
Thou dost smile,
I sing the while,
Sweet joy befall thee!

William Blake