Now I Lay Me down to Count Sheep (standard:humor, 905 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Jan 24 2016	Views/Reads: 1899/1290	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
The more I try to do something, like sleep, the less successful I am. What I need to learn to do is to give everything over to God and trust Him.

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I laid myself down and tucked myself in hoping that sleep would invade
my body. 

Unfortunately, sleep was nowhere to be found for me. 

I once heard somebody say that if you cannot sleep at night, start
counting sheep and within no time you would fall fast asleep. At this 
point in my sleepless night, I would try just about anything. 

So, I started counting sheep. One, two, three, four and I kept counting
until I hit 197. At this point, I could not fall asleep because all of 
the bleating of the sheep in my room kept me awake. They simply would 
not quiet down. 

I laid there quietly waiting for the sheep to leave and for the dawn to
arrive. 

I heard my clock click on the hour every hour. Then a light began to
glow through my window. It was the sun. The night was over and the day 
had begun. 

About this time, I fell asleep. 

“Wake up,” someone was saying as they were violently shaking me. “You're
not going to sleep all day are you?” 

I got up, drug myself to the bathroom, then went out to the kitchen to
sit down for my morning coffee. 

The night is over and another day has come. 

I was reminded of a special verse in the Bible that says, “It is vain
for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: 
for so he giveth his beloved sleep” (Psalms 127:2). 

As I meditated upon this verse, the thought came to me; the more I try
to do something, like sleep, the less successful I am. What I need to 
learn to do is to give everything over to God and trust Him. 


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