By Banji Ayoola
The Almighty Father in His Wisdom made a day 24 hours; and wisely too, He broke these into two equal halves of the daylight and the night.
In the first half, the daylight, we are to exert ourselves, and subject ourselves to rigorous mental and physical pressures, as we go our separate ways to immer
se ourselves in the legitimate struggles for our living.
During this first half, we go out based on our individual abilities, free choices and what fate has in store for us, which we must experience individually, to work and sweat for our daily bread. We subject ourselves to pressures of various kinds.
When we rise in the morning, we wake up to the visible physical commotion, the more intense struggles and the noise in nature; and join these. We are thrown into the palpable seething and surging, the foaming and cooling off.
This process is joined by the noise ensuing from the physical activities of our fellow wandering human beings.
Currents streaming through Nature more forcefully urge us to mental and physical activities.
We wake up to discern these currents sweeping through, compelling us and rousing us to mental and physical exertion.
Daily, cocks crow at regular hours to announce the break of a new day. It is the period when men actualise the impressions or what they have been permitted to receive from the womb, the storehouse of Nature, into which always stream gifts from the ever richly-laden Table of the Lord.
And these gifts are inexhaustible from which men could, and indeed should gratefully draw continuously for earthly application to their benefit in their existence and wanderings on earth.
This second half, the night, is more relaxed, soothing and quiet. It is gentle, more delicate, more refined, and devoid of the seeming harshness of the day; as men in the normal circumstances, are relieved of their intense vigorous activities of the first half the day.
It is the period when blackness envelopes the earth. As if sending a strong signal to men, as if compelling them to apply the brakes on, take leave of, and rest from, their rigorous activities of the first half of the day.
At night, the weather is cooler and more friendly. Thus this second half of the day is for us to relax, rest from our rigorous activities of the daylight, and recuperate, draw, and receive new strength for our use when the new day breaks.
The night is the period when we are usually given new recognitions, impressions, gifts which often are beyond the ordinary. It is the period when we often receive out of the gifts and blessings streaming endlessly out of Nature’s great abundance.
It is often during the night that authors, writers, artists, inventors, mediums and others endowed with special abilities or gifts, receive higher impressions and models which they transfer onto the earth for earthly application.
Thus the Night, literally, is feminine in her activity which is that of giving, of mediating gifts, help from distances above the earth unto earth-men for earthly application. It is the period when men usually dream and in their dreams, they receive solutions to problems, hints, warnings, guidance and help, and oftentimes new gifts entirely to ease their wanderings on earth and for ennobling the earth.
There are some men, who work in the silence offered by the Night, as their most productive hours when they are free from the hassles, noise and other pollution of the day.
The Night gives so much. So much that man should ever be grateful for. So much that assures the welfare of all the earthly creatures. So much that man should treat the Night with respect and honour.
So much that man should do everything to protect the Night against attack or disturbance; against the noise, or pollution of whatever form, of the daylight. So much that we should fence the Night off and away from any disturbance.
The Night gives; we receive. We should receive, grateful that we are permitted the Grace of having the Night, the Mother of the Day.
The Night is a sanctuary, another refuge of peace, another fountain of love from which we daily draw fresh strength for our wanderings, for our joyful existence here on earth.
So enriching that we should treat the Night as fragile, a most precious gift of the Almighty Father and Most High for our well-being here on earth.
As she gives us in love, we should equally reciprocate and treat the Night with love, with honour, caring for her in our thoughts, words and deeds streaming with so much love and respect.
