It’s 4:00 in the morning!

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I recently ran across this post written in July 2018. I thought I would like to share it again. I hope you don’t mind.

It’s 4:00 in the morning!

4 AM. The clock ticks inexorably towards 5 o’clock but it’s still a long way away. It is dark. It is quiet. But it is not silent. I can hear a clock ticking in the other room  . . .  tick tick tick. A relentless metronome. Tick tick tick. Isn’t there supposed to be a tock in there somewhere? It’s funny how we interpret what we hear.

I just heard a car, I think, it was a quiet, dull roar. Fortunately no car alarms! I can hear my refrigerator faintly humming. Not a tune I know. Silly me. I get a little punchy in the wee, wee hours of the day. Or is it still night? Technically it’s the morning but that doesn’t seem right until after dawn. But it is a quiet time.

I can hear my heart beating. Odd. It is something that has been doing the same job for more years than I wish to admit to and yet it is alien to me. My liver, my spleen. These are all important aspects of what makes me tick but I have no relationship with them. They are the mechanisms within the shell of my body. And I am no mechanic!

I am tired. But I am not sleepy. My body wants to rest but my mind insists it has something important to say. I wonder what that is. I wonder what is the meaning of life. Meaning. Mean. Such different meanings. Can you be mean to your meanings? How do we understand? Why do we not understand? We are not so different from each other and yet we insist that we are. Why? Why do we hate what we do not understand? When? When did we come to believe that it was okay to hate? Is that the meaning of life?

Understanding. Perhaps when we understand each other we will realize that only when we are acting as one, can we become one. One species, one race, one people. Too few people have tried. We are raised to be individuals and we cannot comprehend how we can be a part of something bigger when we come together as a whole. We do not give up our individuality by joining a group we simply enhance the group.

I feel I’m in ranting but I also feel that it is important. I am important. You are important. But even better than all of that:  WE ARE IMPORTANT!  WE MATTER.

40 thoughts on “It’s 4:00 in the morning!”

  2. Darlene

    I love this. My daughter, the potter, has always had a problem sleeping through the night and often makes her best pottery at four o’clock in the morning. She recently had a show in a local art gallery which she called Four in the Morning!

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  4. Murphy’s Law

    This is a great post Pam. I’m glad you repeated it. I used to sleep straight through the night. Then the “nature calls’ started. About one year ago the “4 o’clock wake up call started” , with my brain on the fast track. Questions, questions, questions, but I never come up with any answers.

    All of us definitely matter!

    I saw my first Robin earlier, so between that and your post my day has started very nicely, thank you.
    Ginger

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      1. Mark Lanesbury

        That’s the time we can listen and not disturb the ego Pam. That was how I used to chat a lot to Spirit, then come up out of that space to write it down. Do you know how bad writing is at that hour? 🤣❤️🙏🏽

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  7. joylennick

    Humanity must have a sort of ‘not such a secret group’ who wake up in the early hours and WONDER…We are all important, except the despots, their cohorts, and those with evil in their hearts. I have great affection for the remainder…

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  8. Dale

    Four a.m. seems to be a popular time. Though I’ve been known to awaken at 2 or 3 (but usually those times allow me to fall right back asleep. Usually.) The four a.m. one, though, that one does seem to find it the best to rev up the engines that are our brains and send thoughts whirring to and fro.
    Wonderful post and definitely worth the repeat.
    You are absolutely right, of course. We all matter.
    Wouldn’t it be great if our minds could meet up?

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      1. Mark Lanesbury

        Indeed we do dear lady. The ‘us’ always brings to mind those hospital ships that go to the poorer countries and bring hope to so many that would never reach any care like it in their lifetimes. To see such joy in their faces afterwards is so worth the ‘us’ we share in us all. Great post 😀❤️🙏🏽

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  14. joylennick

    Hi Mark, There’s always someone in need of a shoulder…I believe in goodness, kindness, contentment, appreciation, empathy, love and hope. I don’t comment on organized religion as there are literally dozens of different religions and Gods, so am bound to upset someone, somewhere! Love is where the heart is. xx

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    2. Mark Lanesbury

      It is indeed Joy, our intent is always that which shows who we are. And we all do indeed have our own paths to find it. I didn’t have a religious bone in my body and thought the ‘knowing’ that came to me was in everyone. But much later I realized my path was opening to ‘listen’ (don’t tell my mom I did that), to the love I was being shown. I always had this intense loving feeling that came with any ‘knowings’ that came through…but on the night God spoke to me while I was dying on the floor…(there are no words)…my path was set. I had denied it in so many ways, until you can’t. But as long as that love is always there with what I do, I follow my path. Thank you for the share kind lady, may that love ever be in your heart 😀❤️🙏🏽

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