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Sleep, Or Rather the Lack of It

Psalm 127:2 ESV  " It is in vain that you rise up early    and go late to rest,  eating the bread of anxious   toil;    for he gives to his   beloved   sleep. My husband has left for a few days and I was anticipating doing many long put off house projects, meeting with friends I usually don't have time to meet with, and generally being pretty busy.  Along with all of that toil was likely to come much less sleep.  I struggle with sleep anyways.  I haven't slept through the night for more than a night or two since I was pregnant with my oldest daughter eight years ago.   This morning in my Bible study, Becoming a Woman of Simplicity , Ms. Heald wrote about rest.  The first verses were about resting on the seventh day that we might be refreshed no matter the time of year--Exodus 23:12 and 34:21.  I knew these verses, but the next question and verse took me by surprise.  It was Psalm 127:2 that I'...