![]() Or I rise early to pray or to take a friend to the airport.īut my willingness to sacrifice sleep also reveals less noble loves. I love my husband and my close friends so I stay up late to keep a good conversation going a bit longer. I love my kids, so I sacrifice sleep for them (often)-I nurse our baby or comfort our eldest after a nightmare. ![]() A decent indicator of what we love is that for which we willingly give up sleep. ![]() Our sleep habits both reveal and shape our loves. What if all these boring parts matter to God? What if days passed in ways that feel small and insignificant to us are weighty with meaning and part of the abundant life God has for us? Yet God made us to spend our days in rest, work and play, taking care of our bodies, our families, our neighbourhoods, our homes. We tend to want a Christian life with the dull bits cut out. We don’t want to watch our lead character going on a walk, stuck in traffic, or brushing his teeth-at least not for long, and not without a good soundtrack. On the central idea of the book:Īlfred Hitchcock said movies are “life with the dull bits cut out.” Car chases and first kisses, interesting plot lines and good conversations. Here are a couple of excerpts which I found especially helpful. ![]()
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