Morning Person
Besides being an introvert, I am one of those dreaded morning people.
What is a morning person, you might ask? Besides waking early every day (I usually wake up around 4 am), I am happy in the morning. Almost giddy happy. Certainly, an adolescent or younger form of happy.
As I am making breakfast, I usually like to play music - not Christian music or even pop music but young child music. My current favorite is “Wakey, Wakey, Eggs and Bakey” by Mrs. Sparkles (I blame my 3-year-old granddaughter for exposing me to the musical genre). I have been known to make up my own lyrics and/or whistle to the music.
Since I am somehow able to contain myself by the time I get around others, who may not appreciate my eclectic personality, you may think “so what!” But the reality is that I’m married to a non-morning person!
One of the things my father-in-law disclosed, when I asked for his daughter’s hand in marriage 39 years ago, was to caution me to let her wake up and drink a Diet Pepsi before I interact with her too much in the mornings. Additionally, in his household, they didn’t tolerate whistling and my wife, to this day, is intolerant of whistling. This means that some mornings I am walking on egg shells trying to figure out, or just stop doing, whatever irritates her.
Now, to be fair, we have almost the opposite situation in the evenings. By 7 or 8pm, I am looking for an excuse to go home and go to bed. And I am the kind of person that can decide to go to sleep and usually be asleep within 15 minutes (which really ticks off my wife). I have been told (but rarely remember), being awoken by some question and snapping my reply. My wife, on the other hand, likes to play some games on her phone or color on her tablet for what seems to me to be hours (it isn’t really hours but when you are in that early sleep stage where you drift in and out of sleep and you notice things like a bright search light coming from your wife’s tablet).
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.” - Psalm 139:13-16 ESV
“Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches. Was anyone at the time of his call already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the marks of circumcision. Was anyone at the time of his call uncircumcised? Let him not seek circumcision. For neither circumcision counts for anything nor uncircumcision, but keeping the commandments of God. Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called. Were you a bondservant when called? Do not be concerned about it. (But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.) For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ. You were bought with a price; do not become bondservants of men. So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God.” - 1 Corinthians 7:17-24
I have no idea why God made me an early morning person but he does and for that I praise him.
