The story of how Fr. Gregory became a morning person | Fr. Gregory Pine & Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress

The story of how Fr. Gregory became a morning person | Fr. Gregory Pine & Fr. Joseph-Anthony Kress
Fr. Gregory is a morning person... Fr. Joseph-Anthony is more of a night owl... how did this come to be? Which one are you? Is one better than the other?

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I've always been a night owl but have also been trying to shift that to earlier nights and mornings in the past few years because I love that feeling of being able to do a lot of things after waking up and there still being a couple hours before lunch. I also love the sun and light so the more I benefit from that when waking up, the better. And being eastern orthodox you think and talk a lot about life in the ancient world and I've started wanting to get closer to that so I can suffer less of the modern ailments. Specially since the lockdowns I've had a lot of trouble waking up and being completely lucid and clearheaded, being out in the world and not feeling overwhelmed etc, and it seems to me like coming closer to the natural cycles and habits of creation will obviously help with that, along with attentive prayer before and after nighttime sleep. So I've been shifting my night schedule, turning off screens a couple hours before bedtime, switching to warmer, dimmer bulbs, praying solely with candles and trying (trying!) to get out of my house as early as possible and not extend my mornings seeing what other food I can add to my breakfast - or what else I can waste my time with online. We need real, God-created light, not the artificial human-made ones, to give us true life!