For the last week my sleep patterns have been oddly interrupted. I have been unexplainably waking up around 4:00 am, feeling very tired and forced to spend the next while trying to get back to sleep (it seems the harder you try the less success you have). Eventually I would fall back to sleep until my alarm would rouse me from what seemed a far too short night.
My first thought with these early morning interruptions was that I had consumed too much caffeine the day before. I'm 40 now and I can no longer have a caffeinated beverage after early afternoon. When I do it results in sporadic interruptions through the night. This was where I first turned my sleuthful gaze but I quickly confirmed that this was not the cause of my interruption.
In my devotions on Wednesday I read in Isaiah 50:4 - Morning by morning He awakens me and opens my understanding to His will... and I wrote about it in my journal and spent some time praying about how great it is to have a God who interacts with us daily. Even as I did this I never connected this verse to my early morning interruptions. (it does make me wonder what other glaringly obvious things I'm missing)
Well this morning the penny dropped. Sadly not at 4:00 am when I again woke up, but in the 'thin space' that seems so close to God when you are between snooze button hits.
I'm sure glad God is patient with this slow learner. If I wake up tomorrow morning I'm getting up.
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