Sometimes I awake in the middle of the night.
It seems God is gently waking me up to spend some time with Him.
What do I do to help myself fall back asleep?
Interiorly, I say to God:
I love you.
I trust that you will heal and transform my mental, emotional, and health-related challenges.
I give them all to you right now.
I recite them one by one, interiorly until I feel I am done.
Then I envision how my upcoming day will go.
I think about what I want to accomplish and visualize it as completed.
I pray for individual family members and friends.
Then I tell God:
I thank you that I get to rest in you while you handle all of this.
I close my eyes and allow myself to drift back to sleep.
Most often, I soon fall asleep.
When this happens to you, give it a try and see what happens.
Trust that perhaps you awoke to spend some extra time with God.
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