When you have a hard time sleeping, think of Me. Instead of counting sheep, think of Me. If you cannot sleep, stay awake with Me. Tarry with Me a while. It will not be idle the time you spend with Me.
It is better to spend the time with Me than to grumble about not being able to sleep! There are worse things that could be happening than being awake with Me.
Maybe I want your company. Do you mind? And don’t worry about tomorrow. You can be alert tomorrow if only you will think so. Go to sleep earlier, and maybe it will be easier for you to fall asleep.
Your sleep last night is not the most important thing in the world. It is not crucial to your existence.
What is the most important thing in the world? You are right, it is love. When you cannot sleep, love that you are awake. Love sleep when it comes, and love wakefulness when sleep doesn’t come. What if you would just love wanting to sleep? What if you would just love yawning and rubbing your eyes?
It is good rest for you when you do not resist being awake. How easy is life when you say: “Okay, life, be as you are. I will go along with you without fuss today. This is how you want it, then that’s how it will be.”
It is certain that sleep will come by and by. Sometimes you have been sleepy and desirous of staying awake!
Sleep comes and goes as it wills, and life comes and goes in its own fashion. Life is not like an army of soldiers who polishes its boots every day on schedule. Life seems to have its own schedule, and you do not always have a say about it. Give life some leeway. Let what is be okay. Do not become a martinet with life.
Paper, scissors, stones. You are not the absolute assigner of that which you get. You are the assigner of what you do with what you get.
Insomnia is a good wall you come up against. It brings out treasures from you that you didn’t know you had. Life will make you patient. In life, you are the stone that the ocean smooths. The ocean smooths the stone’s rough edges. The stone cannot run away from the ocean and its persistence. Smoothing is a way of life for life, as it holds you in its embrace.
You are life’s shining example. You are paper, and you are scissors as well. You cut yourself and call it life. As paper, you get pushed and pulled by the ocean, and you may get torn here and there, and still you are not torn apart. Still you are paper, or scissors, or stone. And you are life too. And you are the light of life.
Tonight you will sleep well, and the next morning you will wake well. Whatever landslide of life you find yourself in, you will get up from it and keep going. Do not always persist in having your way, and yet persist in life. You are meant to persist in life. You are meant to keep going forward.
Let bygones be bygones. Today is a new day, and tomorrow will be another one, delivered to you with a clean slate, a clean slate if you don’t accrue your protests. Choose to let life come to you as it comes to you. You are a recipient of life and not a martyr to its cause. Bless life, and blessed will you be.