I am a night owl. No matter how hard I may wish to be an
early bird, I have always been and will likely always be, a night owl.
I used to feel bad about that. I still do on occasion. When discussing
the hours of a recent course I would be teaching, I requested an afternoon
rather than a morning class. My supervisor chuckled and said, “Not a morning
person, eh?”
Our society seems to put greater worth on hours worked
before noon than after noon. And there isn’t really a logical reason for that.
We’ve all heard, “early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and
wise.”
It isn’t that I haven’t done the early morning shifts; it’s
that I do the evening and night shifts much better. I feel more alert, have
higher productivity – and am more cheerful.
For years, I felt as if I should try to change this. But it’s
been a losing battle. I can easier work until four in the morning than I can wake
up at four in the morning.
Then someone told me, “God made the early birds and the
night owls so he would always have someone to sing his praises.”
Hooray, I’m not a lazy bones! I’m a night owl!
Recently, my husband got an app on his I-Touch that has bird
sounds. Did you know that there are 525 different owls all over the world
including the tropics and subarctic? And each of these owls makes several
different interesting and unique sounds. The Great Horned Owl which we have
around here, makes a deep sound like a large dog barking. The Easter Screech
Owl sounds like a horse whinnying. It’s great fun listening to all the varied
sounds of owls on this bird song app. And I can just imagine the chorus they
must make sending up their collective praises to their Creator.
Night owls or early birds – God made each of us to do our
part for him.
Dorene Meyer, author of Rachel's Children
Jenny Wilson, an investigative reporter, finds more than she
bargained for: Jeff Peters, the man who had mysteriously disappeared from her
life three years before; Missy, the child she thought was dead; and a story
that could make headlines across the world.
But if Jenny publishes what she knows, Jeff may be sent to
prison; Missy could lose her father; and Jenny will have betrayed her new
friends. It is a choice that only she can make.
2 comments:
Very interesting, Dorene.
I've tended to be more night oriented, but have also been a light sleeper for decades. Bouts of insomnia -- especially after working on late -- have coaxed me to be more moderate in winding down at a reasonable hour.
Maybe your pattern will modify if and when your biorhythmic clock coaxes you :)
I'm definitely a morning person. But if you are as dozy and out of it in the morning as I feel at night all power to you to go with your inner clock. It's obviously working for you. Congratulations on the publication of Rachel's Children. (An email from Amazon.com to me yesterday recommended I buy it... one of these days, after I vanquish a few more of the unread books already on my Kindle!)
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