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In vain you rise early and stay up late,
toiling for food to eat— for he grants sleep to those he loves. (Psalm 127:2 NIV84)

Sleep is vastly under-rated in our culture. Working ourselves or others to death, either a physical or spiritual death, has become the norm for the vast majority. I did this to myself a decade or so ago. It cost me my job and eventually most everything I owned. And it has taken me all those years to catch up on my sleep.

I felt so guilty about this need for sleep! What use was I to anyone as I slept 12 hours a day? But then I wasn’t use to anyone when I didn’t. This need for excessive sleep has finally come back to normal. And truly, God gives to me, his beloved, sleep.

Two of our grandchildren just spent a week with us all by themselves. What a total delight! Oh my, the energy they have! It’s been less than 24 hours and we already miss them terribly. The sweet sound of their laughter, the joy of play, the incessant “Grandma? Grandpa?” and thier delight in catching frogs…it’s too quiet now! But I have to say the sleep we got last night was one of the most restorative ever. May God bless every parent everywhere with his beloved sleep