When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
I am so grateful that the Creator of "the grace of the world" cares for me. I can cast all of those cares back upon Him and sleep in peace.
"Cast all your anxieties on him,
because he cares for you." (1Peter 5:7 ESV)
In peace I will both lie down and sleep;
for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
(Psalm 4:8 ESV)
As a little girl my father shared a thought with me about waking up in the night. I have never forgotten it. When you wake up pray! It is quiet. There is probably no one else in your neighborhood praying right now. It is just you and God. Pray!! And sleep will come. Try it.
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