15 min
2/2/20 Faith in the Dark Sermon Series - Mark 4:35-41 FCCBG Sermons
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Rev. Megan Huston — Sleep...
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
A few years ago I read a blog post by Rev. Erin Wathen about sleep. She writes about reading another article about sleep that scared her straight. The main idea is that sleep deprivation impacts us in huge ways and that a lack of sleep can actually take years off our lives.
So I started using my bedtime app on my iphone, where I set what time I will wake up the next day and 8 hours and fifteen minutes before that time, my phone chimes the beginning a soft lullaby. It reminds me that I need to stop what I'm doing and get ready for bed.
I'm not going to say I have been 100% successful at this, but it has helped me to do better.
How are you sleeping these days?
It is truly amazing how many products are marketed to help us sleep: pills, bubble bath, even sleep stories are available to us. Clearly sleep doesn't come easy for many or we wouldn't hear so much about it all the time.
This Sunday we will consider a different aspect of the dark and remember when Jesus fell asleep on a boat in the middle of a storm. We will consider those moments (or sometimes hours) when we wake in the middle of the night and struggle to go back to sleep. Is it possible that the time we spend lying on our beds, minds wandering, is actually a productive time? Is it possible that God meets us in the 2am darkness?
How often did God speak to people in the Bible through their dreams? Does God still speak through our dreams today?
I am really looking forward to thinking together about how God meets us in both our waking and our sleeping.
Peace,
Megan
Rev. Megan Huston — Sleep...
Now I lay me down to sleep
I pray the Lord my soul to keep
If I should die before I wake
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
A few years ago I read a blog post by Rev. Erin Wathen about sleep. She writes about reading another article about sleep that scared her straight. The main idea is that sleep deprivation impacts us in huge ways and that a lack of sleep can actually take years off our lives.
So I started using my bedtime app on my iphone, where I set what time I will wake up the next day and 8 hours and fifteen minutes before that time, my phone chimes the beginning a soft lullaby. It reminds me that I need to stop what I'm doing and get ready for bed.
I'm not going to say I have been 100% successful at this, but it has helped me to do better.
How are you sleeping these days?
It is truly amazing how many products are marketed to help us sleep: pills, bubble bath, even sleep stories are available to us. Clearly sleep doesn't come easy for many or we wouldn't hear so much about it all the time.
This Sunday we will consider a different aspect of the dark and remember when Jesus fell asleep on a boat in the middle of a storm. We will consider those moments (or sometimes hours) when we wake in the middle of the night and struggle to go back to sleep. Is it possible that the time we spend lying on our beds, minds wandering, is actually a productive time? Is it possible that God meets us in the 2am darkness?
How often did God speak to people in the Bible through their dreams? Does God still speak through our dreams today?
I am really looking forward to thinking together about how God meets us in both our waking and our sleeping.
Peace,
Megan
15 min