Sleep…I LOVE SLEEP!!!! I am not a middle of the night kind of person. I am not someone who can get up and then quickly fall back asleep. I, as a matter of fact, like to sleep, a lot. I relish being able to snuggle down into the covers, roll up in a tight little ball, lay on my side against my body pillow and drift off into a sleep induced oblivion. I LOVE sleep! What a gift it is as a mother to leave the days cares aside and drift off into dreamland…sweet dreams, good night, leave the world behind…pure bliss….That didn’t happen last night!
First of all we have a new puppy. Yes, this anti-animal person is now raising children and all the various pets that come with them! (For those who don’t know we have horses, a Zebu calf, a pen full of hogs that just had little piglets, and now 2 dogs! UGH!) Well last night after a day filled with playing with the kids, the puppy curled up in his bed and promptly fell asleep at 8:00! Perfect timing that is the boy’s bedtime! However, at midnight there was the most incessant whining and whimpering. Being the good Mommy that I am, (and knowing that I didn’t have to nurse or change this baby!), I promptly woke up Daddy and told him to take the puppy out….which he did with no complaints! (WOW!) However, after a four hour nap, the puppy decided that he was up, so we needed to be too! Needless to say we didn’t get back to bed until around 3:00 this morning! MAN….did I mention that I need sleep?
Enter problem number two! Thirty mere minutes after snuggling back under the covers the bedroom door slams shut and little man with freezing toes crawls into bed. “What’s wrong?” his dutiful parents promptly ask. “Mommy & Daddy, can I sweep wif you? I had a bad dream!” Of course the answer was a resounding YES and our sleep was destroyed for the rest of the night while our little one was snoring comfortable, safe, secure and warm in his Daddy’s arms, all within five short minutes of interrupting us and crawling into our bed!
That is the scene that I was looking at as I was contemplating my life. How often am I interrupted by bad dreams, a dead battery in the car, someone was rude in the store, I was cut off on the road? Bad dreams happen a lot in this world. We call it a bad day and determine that there is nothing that we can do about it. We have to suffer through life’s injustices alone, painfully alone. Right? WRONG!!! This scene playing out in my sleepless night reminded me of Matthew 7”7-11:
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or is he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” (NKJV)
WOW! All we need to do is run into the open arms of our heavenly Father, even in the middle of our bad dreams, and He will give us perfect rest! What a picture of love, peace, and comfort a small frightened child can be! Thank you Lord for my interrupted sleep! Thank you Lord for my children, animals and all! Thank you Lord for Your open arms, perfect rest, and for giving me sweet dreams!
Who needs sleep? I have too much learning and growing to do, waiting with open arms for my children to crawl into them! Right now, I think I am going to go crawl up into God’s lap with His Book and snuggle down! Last night I had a bad dream, today I a have perfect comfort! Oh Father, to be a parent like you!!!!
Sleep? Who needs sleep? Not me! Sleep is overrated when Christ is waiting on me anyway!
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