Insomnia

Lately I find myself waking up at insane hours of the night for no reason at all. There are no noises around to wake me up and even if there were...I'm a very deep sleeper. It's not even the fact that I wake up...it's the fact that when I do wake up I am completely awake. It's not an in between, half-awake-half-asleep frame of mind. When I wake up I am completely aware of everything around me and my thoughts are all very tangible.

And I find that at this point in the night, all I really want to do is pray. I just get an intense urge to offer up everything that is going on in my life and everyone that is involved in it to God. So I end up lying in my bed in the dark praying about anything and everything.

Now in the daytime, thinking back to all the things that I do pray for and have prayed for during the past week or two of interupted sleeping nights...I can really see God working. I've offered up situations to God that I can't seem to grasp on my own. I've asked Him to make things clear to me in a way that I can fully understand what I should be doing according to His plans for my life. And I can see these prayers working in my life.

Maybe it's the fact that when I pray during the day I am distracted and don't pray with all of my attention. But praying at night seems to take away all these distractions for me. It makes my prayers seem so much more real.

God is truly great.