That song, an old hymn made popular in the 70’s, is running through my mind, “Morning is Breaking.”  

We do not often think of the words morning and breaking together,  and yet the two do belong together.  The sun comes up at dawn to create a division, a split, between two very different parts of the twenty-four hours each of us are given. We go from darkness to light in dramatic fashion at daybreak.

This break, the division between darkness and daylight, speaks of the hope, the promise, the freshness that is ours each new day.