Insomnia

I've had a little insomnia since I came home from the hospital. No surprise there. The reasons seem to vary -- at first it was pain, sometimes it's non-stop mental list making, sometimes it's over-attentiveness because I'm the only adult in the house. What's that noise? Is Owen going to wake up? blah, blah, blah.

This morning, a psalm caught my eye and struck me as almost funny in its relevance -

"In peace I will both lie down and sleep;

for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." (Psalm 4:8)

The point is trusting that I am secure in God's hands, but that the psalmist specifies "lie down AND sleep" is apt. Tonight, I will lie down and sleep in peace. Or I will repeat this verse to myself until I am bored to unconsciousness.