This Is Morning???

It's 3:55 A.M.

Very A.M.

I've been up for a while now. Was I having trouble sleeping? No,no... I was sleeping. In fact, I was doing a darn fine job of sleeping. If sleeping were an Olympic event, I could make the US team and probably bring home the Bronze.

No, the ability to sleep isn't my problem. However, back when sleeping was a problem for me, I made an interesting discovery. Creatively, I am in the zone between 3:00 and 5:00 A.M. - long before my wife, my co-workers, my family and friends, the sun... before practically everybody in our time zone is up (except our cats, who have apparently signed some sort of creed to not sleep while I'm asleep, and to try to convince me not to sleep either).

So here I am, blearily sipping my morning juice and typing away.

Why would a man do this to himself? I have it in me to write, and if the middle of the night (and, yes, if it is morning and the sun has not even begun to shine that first ray of light upon us, it is the middle of the night) is my time to rise and shine and create, then that is what I need to do.

I am a man with a mission - several missions, in fact. I have writing practice to do. I have a series of teachings on the apostle Peter to prepare. And I have Jeanne & Georgia's eggs to make famous (tee hee hee).

OK, Saint Peter... time to study.