Single Christian Network

Why I Wake EarlyHello, sun in my face, Hello, you who make the morningand spread it over the fieldsand into the faces of the tulipsand the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, themiserable and the crotchety---best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happensto be where you are in the universeto keep us from ever-darkness, to ease us with the warm touching, to hold us in the great hands of light---good morning, good morning, good morning. Watch, now, how I start the dayin happiness, in kindness. ---by Mary Oliver