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Morning People" [
Gall Roberson
I hate morning people. Morning people are depressingly
cheerful at 6:00 A.M., which only makes me feel that much worse
about myself at that time of the NIGHT. Most people hate the
Internal Revenue, getting fat and their mother-in-law. I hate
mornings. Perhaps I should rephrase that. Actually, I LOVE the
mornings with all the glistening dew and the freshness of a new
day. But, I hate getting up early enough to enjoy all that.
I’ve never been a morning person, and I never will be. Anyone
who can face scrambled eggs before 11:00 A.M. has a deep
rooted emotional problem. I'm a night owl instead. I'm my best
from Noon, until, I can eat eggs at any time from thereon out. But
don’t mess with me before that time. I've given you fair warning.
I used to berate myself for not being cheerful in the mornings.
For years my mama and daddy got up before dawn. For years
they made me do the same thing. There was school, and I drove
the bus. Later there was a job, and I needed the money. Now I
have a husband who's a morning person. He's the best he'll be all
day at 6:00 in the morning. I still have a job and I still have to rise,
but I refuse to shine until I'm good and ready.
Yet, for all my heavy exposure to the ways of morning people, I
remain unchanged There has never been an alarm clock that
could wake me up. There has never been a morning in my life
when I have gotten up on the right side of the bed. In facti, there
have been many mornings in my life when I've fallen OFF the bed.
Can you imagine how my breakfast turns out? I am groggy and
grumpy in the mornings. There are bags under my eyes and I am
late for everything. Inevitable, I burn the toast, or the coffee...or
the cat
My hair is not tied back with delicate pink ribbons. My hair
would scare the rouge off the Bride of Frankenstein. I do not
come down the hall gracefully. We have bumper guards on the
chair railing at our house. It takes weeks for the bruises of my
morning strolls down the hall to heal.
Inevitably, night owls always marry morning people. My
husband is a man who can't keep his eyes open beyond the
evening news. He's a man who has never once stayed up to see
the Late Show. Instead, he springs out of bed before the alarm
goes off and rushes to his daily routine. It isdangerousto rush me
into anything in the mornings. These are hours when any SANE
person would just be getting ready to go to bed.
The ridiculous old adage about early to bed, eariy to rise, is a
bunch of junk as far as I am concerned. There's no one I need to
charm in the mornings but the cats, and for them a box of Friskies
will do just fine. Oscar Wilde once said, "Only dull people are
brilliant at breakfast." I like old Oscar. He was a genius...and I
suspect, a night owl too. It's my firm belief that he also poured
sugar in his toaster in the mornings, just like me.
No matter how much sleep I get, I do notgreetthe day looking
like Farrah Fawcett or sounding like Barbara Walters. I will never
be able to flip a pancake before Noon or discuss nuclear fission
intelligently.
My husband has learned through the years that when he asks,
"How did you sleep last night? he will invariably get an answer
such as, "No thanks!" Do not expect perfection from me in the
morning. Do not expect ANYTHING from me in the mornings.
And, also, it's downright dangerous during these hours for him to
inquire as to where his clean socks are. He's learned to put up
with my 8:A.M. "groggies" and me to handle his 8:00 P.M.
"sleepies." What more could you ask for.
I like to ease into my days as slothfully and a grumpily as I
naturally want to. I have tried to change. Honest I have. But you
can't change the color of the sky or the green in the trees that
surround my house. So there. I'm not a morning person. I do not
apologize. Just wanted you to know to stay away until Noon.
Remember, you've had fair warning.
Remembering
The Firmament
By Leia Barrow
Read the first chapter of Genesis and you will understand
where this information comes from:
God created the heaven and the earth. God said: "Let there be a
firmament and let it divide the waters which were under the
firmament form the waters which were above the firmament."
God called the firmament Heaven and called the dry land Earth.
Gool made two great lights-the sun to rule by day and the moon
and stars to rule by night, andGod set them in the firmament of
the heaven togive light upon the earth. Firmament is actually a
Hebrew word meaning ''expansion".
Psalm 115 Our God is in the Heavens. The Lord sayeth"The
heaven is my throne-the earth is my foot stool." First heaven is
the blue expanse which surrounds the earth-and in which the sun
moon and stars seem to be set: the place where God manifests
Himself to the blesed.
I remember back in 1900,1 was twelve years old-1 was invited to
spend a week at Miss May Dudley's home, who lived five miles
north of Greenville. While there I saw a total eclipse of the sun. I
learned then you had to be in the right place at the right time to
see a total eclipse. I watched many that were said to be total, but
in my 94 years that is the only one I've seen. It wasn't total at my
home 25 mites toward the south. As the day got darker, the
chickens started going to their house making a funny noise-they
knew it wasn't time to go to roost, but they were confused-and
really went on the roost. The firmament, or heaven, was filled with
stars-and they were the only things giving light to the earth.
Mrs. Sadie McLawhorn remembers hearing her parents tell
about this-they had people working in their field, and they were
so frightened thay stopped work and got on their knees to pray.
Only the Great Physician can make an eclipse.
Life is made up of little things-destiny hangs on "yes" or "no"-
as we look back, it is no wonder what would have happened if we
had gone the other way. I repeat being in the right place at the
right time caused me to see a beautiful heavenly sight. About
1923 or 24, Mrs. J.B.Brown gave a party-she then lived where Mrs.
Leonard Taylor now lives-after games were played, we were
invited to the dining room for refreshments: we had to go down a
long back porch. Vi/e looked up at the heavens that were brightly
lighted with falling stars. The best I can describe thi^ is"the
heaven was raining down stars"-it was a big shower, each drop
bright and shining seemed like several thousand falling downto
earth. Talmadge said:"Christ is our Star of Hope-all other light
will fail-but this light burns on and on."
There is another heavenly light I had the privilege of seeing by
being in the right place. This happened about 1931. My mother
was in bed not able to get out, I'd fix her for the night and left
Caltonand Sybil with her while I went to the station to walk .back
with Ed. As I was outside the heavens lighted up from North to
South in the shape of a rainbow, so many beautiful colors and so
big and bright. I knew it was the auroro borealis{ or northern
lights as some). I had seen some before this, but ne'erany to
compare with this one. I felt I was seeing The Glory of God in His
Firmament. I think of these as God's wonders revealed to man on
earth. Let everyone praise Him for His goodness.
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