Thy Sleep Shall Be Sweet!

Aimee means "Beloved" . . . I often think of the verse in Psalm 127 "for so He giveth His beloved sleep" and wish that that would mean I would always get lots of sleep! Yeah, wishful thinking!

Today I was just in that almost asleep stage and Wayne woke up early. I try to get all my "chicks in a row" for naps at the same time. Yet Japheth Jr. now four years old does not take a nap very often anymore (But I do make him have some quiet time while we are down). Jeremiah has to have it around 2 or 3 oclock. Loraine is in a inbetween stage in her napping and sometimes she will have a nap in the morning and sometimes not, which them messes up her afternoon schedule. Wayne doesn't really have any schedule. So to line them all up is quite FUN! . . . Oh and then Japheth Sr. can't sleep before 10:00 and likes his "company" to be "bright eyed and bushy tailed" . . . or at least awake. I can't blame it all on him . . . Wayne likes late nights too . . . sometimes even later than his Papa! The few times that I have stayed up later than my husband . . . It was rather lonely!

And I am one of those people who cannot sleep on bus or car or airplane (and probably boat).

I used to be a morning person I tell Japheth. He doesn't believe me . . . all he has known is a wife sometimes desparate for sleep who finds it hard to craw out of bed in the mornings. Oh, the alarm clock thing . . . when it is time to get up (we rarely use the regular one, the roosters do a VERY FINE job, in fact they are over qualified! I think we should fire them!) Japheth has to have a few minutes to "wake up" before he steps out of bed . . . and I am different of course (oppposites attract don't you know) I either have to jump out of bed the instant the clock rings or else immediatly go back to sleep (I despise wasted time!!!) .

I really was a morning person, I grew up on a dairy farm and did most of the milking. I loved getting a good start on the day before others even were awake. . . watching the sun come up . . . getting the cows in in the early morning dawn. I miss it once in a while. But things changed when I got cancer and then pregnant and I have never gone back to being an early bird . . . yet. Someday I might again enjoy the advantages of being "up before the dawn" (actually in the winter we always get up before the sun :) part of living in the North.)

Right now though I have little one to raise and it takes all I've got and more! God is so GOOD! His grace is sufficient for me! . . . and His strength is made perfect in my weakness.

About "quiet time" with God I have room to grow . . . As soon as your feet hit the floor or before babies are crying, breakfast needs to be made, a lunch to pack and the day flies by! Sometimes I give up my much needed nap . . . sometimes its just a few minutes here and there . . . but I try to spend time in the Word before other reading or blogging or whatever. This season in my life especially is a time of desparte need of God and God's wisdom, love and patience!

Psalm 4:8 I will both lay me down in peace and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety" I thank the Lord that I do sleep and sleep in peace . . . even if war was around me I could still have peace knowing that me heart is right before God. Verse 7 "Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased."

"Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet!" Proverbs 3:24b