Thursday night, my grandson, sitting beside me at his mama\u2019s birthday celebration, leaned over and said \u201cNana, I am so sleepy I need a nap even though I took an hour nap today.\u201d My son overheard the exchange and reported that he had read an article that says a shorter night\u2019s sleep is better for you, if you DO get a nap in the day as it gives your mind an opportunity to recharge. I liked that analysis!
Those words made me feel better. I find time to take a nap daily. Most know I\u2019m an early morning riser. My built-in, wake-up clock is set for 4 to 4:30 am. It serves me well as I post my daily blog soon after so that my followers can catch a positive word before their day gets into overdrive. My usual night\u2019s sleep of only about five or six hours just isn\u2019t enough to tide me over for the whole day. It is my normal when my eyelids get very heavy, that I\u2019ll pause to my sweet spot, my recliner, for a rejuvenating nap. I wake up a while later and am alert and ready to go!
Like I get sleepy during the day in the natural, I believe that too many of us are living in a half asleep, groggy mindset. The enemy of our souls has drugged us with complacency. You know, the que sera sera, what-will-be-will-be mindset. We shut off our phones because we don\u2019t want to respond to a call. We are so busy we don’t sense God’s nudge to offer up a prayer for a friend in need. We close our ears and eyes to the pain and suffering around us. We\u2019ve let ourselves go into a slumber by tuning out kindness and consideration for those who can\u2019t sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I sensed today from Heaven Central that I was supposed to sound a \u201cwake-up\u201d call for us. Isaiah 60:1-2 says: \u201cArise, shine; for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and deep darkness the people; but the Lord will arise over you, and His glory will be seen upon you.\u201d How\u2019s that for giving us a \u201chigh energy drink\u201d that will arouse us from our slumber? It seems the enemy\u2019s camp is determined to make the darkness darker. That\u2019s why we MUST arise and let our lights shine brighter than ever before.
We read very little about Jesus taking naps. He tried, but there were always those who needed Him. Jesus’ call to follow Him is a summons in this \u201cdeep darkness around us\u201d to power-up, wake-up and rise-up to be the His light in this world.
In case you\u2019re sensing that you needed this wake-up call today, please join me in this prayer: \u201cThank You, Lord, for waking me up. Thank You for the strength and courage to be a light in the darkness \u2013 to be a refreshing drink of water to a thirsty soul \u2013 to be brothers and sisters to those who need love and kindness. Thank You for teaching us to love like You. May we stand strong and shine brightly against the forces of darkness that are screaming into the ears of our generation. Please give us a holy boldness to shine bright for You! In Jesus’ name. Amen!\u201d
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thursday night, my grandson, sitting beside me at his mama\u2019s birthday celebration, leaned over and said \u201cNana, I am so sleepy I need a nap even though I took an hour nap today.\u201d My son overheard the exchange and reported that he had read an article that says a shorter night\u2019s sleep is better for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18841,21585,21584],"tags":[1347,21583,1210,1769,4712,18287,40,18204,3132,21581,21582,3532,18280,12710],"class_list":["post-14865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-light-shine","category-nap","category-sleep","tag-alert","tag-arise-shine","tag-blog","tag-christian","tag-complacency","tag-groggy","tag-inspiration","tag-light-shine-bright","tag-nap","tag-recharge","tag-rejuvenating","tag-sleep-deprived","tag-sleepy","tag-wake-up-call-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14868,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14865\/revisions\/14868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}