Late

I like staying up late at night. I often think, pray and write better when the house is quiet and I don’t have other distractions crowding in on my time. One of the mysteries of life is that often opposites attract and this has been the case with my husband and I. He is a morning person through and through. Five thirty seems to set off some alarm in his head or used to and he has to be up and about doing something. These days I’m pleased that the alarm has reset itself to 6.30am. What do we call these people, morning Larks?

As for me, I’m still a night owl. If I’m not working I’m watching TV or reading. I remember being told as a child “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Some research revealed that “The length and precision of this 18th century proverb leave little room for interpretation as to its meaning. Like many improving mottos, for example 'a rolling stone gathers no moss' and 'a stitch in time saves nine', it was an encouragement to hard, diligent work. The earliest record of it that I can find of it in print is in Poor Richard's Almanack, which was an annual journal published by Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym of Poor Richard between 1732 and 1758”.

If you work hard in life you will be rewarded regardless of which end of the day you carry it out. “And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;” Colossians 3:23. I will always be a night owl, working, praying and writing well into the late hours of the day but that is ok because that’s the way God made me.