45 m, skip or not to skip?

i went to bed pretty sure that i will skip meditation this morning since i will be in meditation intensive most of the day. yet i come out of sleep, without the timer, at 4. the mind kicks into this mode that says, again and again, you need to sleep, it's okay to sleep some more. but i couldn't go back to sleep. i just get more and more awake. worse still, i watch some anxious thoughts that totally project into the future and speculate what goes on in other people's minds. then i make an inner turnaround. no, i'm not going to roll down this mental slippery slope, i'm going to get up and meditate.

i'm glad i follow this through. immersed in the rhythmic inflating and deflating motions of the rib cage i see myself in the center of an active volcano, and i recall what says in the Jewish Bible about the burning bush's impact on moses, it burns but doesn't consume.