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She didn’t write by thinking, but by listening, setting the stage, and letting the story arrive.
She’d loved the game herself as a kid, with its simple rules: everyone had to speak only in questions, and the first one who didn’t, lost.
“Things often look different,” Molly said, “when we get some distance from them.”
Ever since she was a girl, she’d loved waking up before sunrise. It wasn’t just that a sunrise was a whole different ball game than a sunset: the beautiful reawakening of hope as light flared up in the darkness, rather than the gorgeous final celebration of a day before it slipped into night. And it wasn’t just that so many fewer people ever saw a sunrise than a sunset. Instead, it was those few quiet moments that the early morning hours gave her to herself.
as she’d grown into a woman, she’d realized that she wasn’t just making an escape from company. She was looking to connect with something—sometimes herself, sometimes the Lord—to focus, even for a few minutes, on what really mattered, before the press of the day got into full swing.
And now that she was an older woman, without as many responsibilities and emergencies as she had once had in her life, she treasured it even more than she had as a child.
She loved the feeling it gave her, to be both young and wise at the same time, carrying the exuberance of her youth with her into her current life, and looking back on her younger days with a perspective that made them richer, because she still stood in the same place now,
doing the same thing: sending up a little prayer as the morning began.
she settled into her chair this morning, ready to watch her regular morning show of sunlight begin...
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“I always liked to beat the sun out of bed. It gives you a little bit of time for yourself, no matter what else happens that day.”
For a long moment, both of them simply stared out the window, side by side, watching the light of day break into the world.
“It’s always the same, anywhere you are in the world. But always different, too.” “It’s always different even if you watch it from the same place every day,”
“You can learn a lot in just one place, too,” she said.
