11/26/2019
Morning. That’s a statement, not a greeting. Or, as the song says, “Morning Has Broken.” It hardly made sense to me that morning does such a thing as break, or break through. Then, with a dictionary and Wickipedia, I find the original meaning is from sunrise to noon. How old does one have to get to know these things! That means when we talk about getting up “early” because it is before sunrise, we actually mean we’re getting up “late”… in the what? Night?
I look at this information and see there are many more words for time than just the numbers on a clock. Morning precedes afternoon, then comes evening, then night. Then there’s dawn and also dusk, also daylight and dark. And, if your Irish, the gloamin’! The original form of the word was to carry one through the night till “morrow.” So, the long version of “good morning” is “morrow has come and I hope it is a good one for you!” Origins indicate Middle English borrowed “morwen” from the German “morgen” which is a singular word which signifies both morning and tomorrow. Never let it be said the Germans are overly loquacious!
I don’t want to tire you out about the word morning, but I would be horribly remiss if I didn’t remind you of the “Morning Star,” the Bright and Morning Star and the “DayStar” which are all biblical references to the Lord Jesus Christ and are referencing Him in the same way as other uses of morning: the morrow. Tomorrow is used by many poets for when the Lord returns. Maybe tomorrow. For today, “Morning has Broken.”
Oh, by the way, “Morning Has Broken” was the SIMH this morgen!
Yesterday, I had to drive to Griffin, GA, to get a new storage tank for our Gadsden store. Cole Howard is moving to a larger store and he is upgrading his system which requires a larger tank. The freight was going to be so high I decided to go get it in my pickup truck, saving about $140 in freight and letting me see an area I’ve wanted to drive through for some time now. The area from I-20, 30 miles West of Atlanta and running sort of Southeasterly toward Griffin (which sits next to I-75) is about 70 miles by car through four cities which I believe will one day make for great Blue Jug Alkaline Water and Health Markets; Carrollton, Newnan, Peachtree City, and Grifffin. Their populations and the micropolitan areas are in size, the most desirable cities to build stores in, to my way of thinking.
Carrollton has more than 26,000 people; Newnan more than 33,000; Peachtree City more than 34,000; and Griffin more than 24,000. Excellent cities full of hard working Americans who need the best water money can buy, at a price they can all afford. Ahem! that would be us. We make “water the way it’s meant to be”—that’s our slogan, tagline, and a banner in all our stores!
This is Thanksgiving Week! I hope you and your family are planning a very thankful day to be together, to eat too much, to laugh and love and plan for the next great events coming to you! Here in our little mountain town, we’re in a state of flux with more than one move going on for some of us, but it shall not get in the way of a good day together.
It’s gonna be a busy next 36 days to end this year, but also exciting to get all the things accomplished and ready for the new year. 2020 has “momentous” stamped all over it! And maybe, just maybe, the Lord will come and take us “ever to be with” Him! What a capstone!
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