I have found something that works to help me get focussed in the mornings, and that's sitting down with Leon Morris - figuratively that is. At the moment he is walking me through 1 Thessalonians and helping me to concentrate and hold it in my brain for longer than just the ride to work.
Perhaps those great men ( and women) of faith who have written words for us to be encouraged and challenged can be said to be like Abel, as referred to in Hebrews:
"...by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead"
