“THE SUNSET IS THE VESTIBULE OF THE NIGHT TIME.”

The poet has said “The sunset is the vestibule of the night time.” We don’t like the night. If you have a colicky baby that baby cries more and louder at night. If there is fever in your house especially in one of your children the fever always seems to spike at night. Worry seems to invade our minds at night. Bills we just ‘forgot’ to pay inthe daylight hours now won’t let us rest…at night. Sounds we would not have even heard this afternoon now resemble that of an earthquake and keep us restlessly alert…at night. Dogs, cats and squirrels all kinds of varmints plunder through our garbage at night. Criminals do their most vile deeds in the night.

Contrast that with the morning. Hope comes with the morning. New life is symbolized with the morning. Joy appears and despair is destroyed with the dawning of a new day. Doctor’s tell us that our body is at its strongest and our mind is at its sharpest in the morning. The scripture tells us in Psalm 30:5 that weeping endures for the night but JOY comes in the morning. Our bodies receive strength and rest while we sleep and we generally sleep…at night. Having received the recuperative powers provided through sleep we awake rejuvenated with new strength when the sun comes up…..in the morning.