It's just a few before 8am. It's still dark outside, cold. I haven't been up this early in the morning in a while, since Christmas break began, actually (what a sleep addict). It feels good to be up this early though, the world seems to have slowed down, stopped is mad spinning with people's minds going a mile a minute and rushing here and there. A presence is clearer in the stillness, like the earth is laughing, enjoying life before cars start running, fouling the air and people start using paper, plastic, metal. Is it You, Lord? Is it your Creation in its very being? Anyhow, I feel closer to God in the morning, in the quiet.