Can't sleep? Here's the best thing in the world for putting yourself to sleep when you've got insomnia, or perhaps monsters sitting on your chest. A friend gave me a great technique for when you're brain won't shut down at night time. Give it a job. The best job in the world.
Pray for your friends in alphabetical order (I'm usually asleep before I make it to Zan -- so sorry). Don't obsess over who you put in and who you leave out. Just open your heart and call their images and concerns to mind. Not much to mind, but brush past them and offer them up to God. Offer everything up to God. Let go. Pray. Touch your friends.
You'll be asleep by "H."
So glad my name starts with "A."
Something in me feels like this isn't quite right. I'm using prayer as a sleep aid.
God's always glad to hear from me. And if my child was tense and anxious and couldn't sleep and was nestled in my arms, I'd relish hearing her offer up the names of the people she loved, holding them up to their Creator in love and, yes, sleepiness.
One way we'd put Lily to sleep was to read her the book, Goodnight Moon. But now I've found that it's hazardous to our children's health. Read this very funny opinion in The New York Times here.
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