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When you know the truth, you rest easy.
My family and I just got back from being in Michigan for a week. It was a great time seeing family I only see once or twice a year...catching up on everything new going on...and just enjoying being together.
One of the things that bothered me was finding out that a few of my family members don't do too well when it comes to sleep. For the most part, due to different things from the past, they can't get good sleep because they keep reliving different events, as well as worrying about the future.
Over the years I have lost a few nights of sleep, but I can probably count the number of sleepless nights on one hand. When my head hits the pillow, the sandman does the rest. No matter how many things are going on in my life, or how much my head is swimming with things to do...I sleep like a baby.
So...why do some people keep themselves up thinking all night...while others are out before the lights are off?
Well, based on my extensive research from watching crime shows...detectives say you can always tell if a criminal is guilty based on how they sleep their first night in jail. If they are innocent, they have restless sleep worrying about how to prove their innocence. If they are guilty, they know they are caught, so they sleep like a baby. Okay...maybe not that simple...but there is something to this logic.
What is it that really prevents us from sleeping?
Worry, fear, doubt, anxiety (and all related qualities).
I think we can all relate to decisions or times in our life when an event or situation overwhelms us. It could be a project at work, a deadline looming overhead, or a tough choice that needs to be made. It occupies all our thoughts to the point of paralyzing us from being able to do much else. So, even when it comes to sleep, we can't calm our thought down enough to find peace and catch some sleep.
What do you do?
For me, it boils down to remembering who and what is ultimately in control of my life (although my wife say that my ignorance is my bliss).
This is something I thought a lot about while being in Michigan. Since I have become a free-agent and steady income hasn't been always so steady...I have been tempted to get crippled with fear. It doesn't help when you run into people where money and income isn't even an issue for them at all...so then I start to think about the decisions I have made and am making and I begin to doubt whether I am doing the right thing?
Am I being foolish? Irresponsible? What about your wife and two kids?
These are the thoughts I was dealing with on the plane ride home. Maybe I am not doing the right thing...ugh...what am I doing?
I was forced to go back to square one...back to Spirit, God, Love, and think about the abundance and boundless power that has taken, is taking, and will always take care of my family and me. I think back to where my life has taken me, the crazy events that has brought me to where I am today, and how things that seemed coincidental at the time were really part of a greater plan of Love guiding and leading me everyday.
Turning to my favorite guidebook called Science and Health, I found the following comforting passage, "Wait patiently for divine Love to move upon the waters of mortal mind, and form the perfect concept. Patience must "have her perfect work.""
Patience. Yes. I pray about if everyday. I am a person who wants things now. Success...abundance...you name it...I don't have the patience. Like Veruca from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,"...."I want an Ompa-Lompa now daddy!"
I know that Spirit has always taken care of me...so why would that change now? I know I need to do a better job of letting go of all the "human thought" that tries to distract me with fear and worry...and trust Love. Let go of my agenda...and trust that God is providing and supplying all of my needs...i.e. looking at things with "Spirit thought."
Each night, when my head hits the pillow...I think about all of the thoughts in my head, and if there is any doubt, fear, or worry...I identify them and let them go to God. I get myself out of the way by trusting that God's love is greater than any solution I could come up with.
After that...I then...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
Sleeping like a guilty man :)
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