I've struggled with sleep lately.
I used to sleep like a rock. Not anymore. Worries wake me up. My mind ruminates and won't settle down.
When I can't get back up to sleep I get up, make a cup of decaf tea, and trying to do something to distract myself. Like writing something for you.
The sleeplessness is not so bad a problem that I need to do anything about it. Just that my sleep has been disturbed enough by an anxious mind that I resonate with the petition of the psalmist. "In peace I will lie down and sleep." I read that petition in two different ways. First, as an expression of trust, that God is protecting the sleeper from threats without. But there is also peace within, the peace of untroubled sleep. Sleeping in peace, from threats without and worries within, is a picture of confidence, surrender, trust, and security.
I wouldn't say my troubled sleep is symptomatic of some trust issues.
But I'm also not saying it couldn't be.
