{"id":1683,"date":"2015-05-16T03:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/sweet-sleep\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:03:15","slug":"sweet-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Day 128 of Photo Inspirations — Sweet Sleep
\nGod blessed me with a built-in internal alarm clock.  No matter what time I go to bed, I typically wake up between 6 am and 6:30 am.  I’m sincerely appreciative for that oddity most of the year. Rarely do I oversleep.  I’ll admit that during the colder winter months, I still wake up at my usual time, but wish to stay all cozy and comfortable longer.<\/p>\n

My roommate, while on the cruise a few weeks ago, was amazed that I woke up each day at the same time — regardless whether we were having a time zone change or not (there were 7).  It worked out perfectly for us.  I’d quietly get up at my 6 am wake-up time, go to the gym and run my 3 miles on the treadmill, then go to the dining room and have my breakfast and devotion time, and do my daily FB post\/blog…..and by then she’d be just waking up. <\/p>\n

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I’m a phenomenon!  LOL!  Actually, I’m not.  I understand there is an explanation for my waking-up quirkiness.  It has to do with melatonin and neurotransmitters and highly anatomical stuff like that. That’s WAY over my comprehension level.   The best way I can explain it is that I apply God’s Word to everything.  And for my sleeping, this scripture, “When I lie down, I am not afraid; yes, I lie down and my sleep is sweet!”   The 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 hours of sleep I get (sometimes more; sometimes less) are sweet. <\/p>\n

Sleeping became an art for me over the years.  Once upon a time, I allowed worry and concern to be my bedtime companions — thereby causing me extremely disturbed sleep.  I had to nip that in the bud.  I needed my sleep.  This scripture is one that I came to depend on.  If I awoke in the night, I would pray it as a prayer. And I had other going-back-to-sleep methods, also.  I’d say the alphabet with adjectives for God, like He’s A-amazing; awesome; alpha; almighty; B-beautiful; bountiful; beginning; baptizer;  C-creator; Christ; comforter, etc.  Typically, I’d be asleep before I would get to G or H.<\/p>\n

There really is an answer to EVERYTHING in God’s Word — even for getting a good night’s sleep.  If it’s sweet sleep you need, perhaps it’s time to go to the Book of Answers…..the Bible — let Him talk to you through His Word, and you talk to Him by exalting Him and His character — after all, He IS amazing, awesome, almighty, beautiful, bountiful……are you getting sleepy yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 128 of Photo Inspirations — Sweet Sleep God blessed me with a built-in internal alarm clock.  No matter what time I go to bed, I typically wake up between 6 am and 6:30 am.  I’m sincerely appreciative for that oddity most of the year. Rarely do I oversleep.  I’ll admit that during the colder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[1161,10299,30,10300,10301,9444],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gods-word","tag-internal-alarm-clock","tag-scripture","tag-sleeping","tag-sleeping-is-an-art","tag-sweet-sleep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}