The Lord totally heard my prayer to him. I said many, many years ago asking him to use me in however he wants to use me. So, I had to say goodbye to sleeping late and waking up late, apparently. Because, God had another plan. God changed my sleeping habits to very weird, not normal, sleeping times. I would probably get to bed by like 10-ish and maybe wake up at 4-ish or 5. I was at an early stage with my MS so I was still able to walk and do most of the things that I usually did in the morning without any help. So, my husband wouldn't be bothered.
As years went by and as my illness progressed, God decided on waking me up even earlier, and yes with the same sleeping time. For many years now, I would say my regular wake up time would be 3 a.m. Actually now, ever since I was hospitalized and I'm still recovering at home, God has decided to wake me up sometimes at 2 am. How about them apples? I know right!
Now, it has been more than 10 years of these weird and sometimes uncomfortable sleeping habits. What does my husband think of this? In the early years of my weird sleeping habits, I'm sure he was very upset. And what I did was pray to God, that if he was going to do this, if he would also please make my husband be understanding about this. And, with no surprise, Joe was cool with it because, well, I hope you understand that I'm not the one waking myself up. It's not like I set up an alarm to wake me up.
Let me share where my sleeping habits are now. Well, to reiterate I did just return home from being in the ICU at the hospital for a few days. So, perhaps God knew to make my sleeping habits more earlier sometimes.
Now, I wake up and the first thing I do is go to my list of prayers to people on my phone. Then, after praying for people, I read the Daily Bread on my phone. Then, if I feel the Lord doesn't want me to shower yet, I may read other prayers that I have in my phone. Then, well specifically now because still in recovery mode, I wake up Joe and ask him for help to bring me to the bathroom. So I do the normal bathroom stuff, call Joe to come back in the bathroom to help me with the rest of bathroom stuff. Then he will carry me like my knight in shining armor and bring me back to the bed. Then, I do my exercises and stretches and blah blah blah.
Well, since today is the weekend and the Lord decided to wake me up up around 2 something, I did what I normally do and when it came time to starting my writing, I fell right back asleep with my husband sleeping on the other side, as if the Lord knew I needed more sleep. I did get my sleep for a few hours last night and then woke up at 11 and got ready for bed with Joe and slept right after. Thank God for giving me strength to do my normal bathroom stuff, but then he also made me fall asleep. And now, I'm doing my writing! Friends, waking up starting your day with God is the best thing! It amazes people how refreshed and energized I look and act after they find out how much sleep I actually got the night before. And, I told them the same thing I told you, starting the day with Jesus is the best thing possible!
Encouraging thought of the day:
Start your day and wake up with Jesus! Let Jesus be the start to your day!
Ephesians 5:14 ESV
For anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
Isaiah 60:1 ESV
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
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