Sleep in Peace

Yesterday, after coming home from the trip to Jurong Bird Park and Jurong Point, I was actually pretty alert when I reached home as I took a nap in Papa's car along our way home. Papa was tired out and he rested after his shower. Mama kept me company by playing with me and reading to me. She then gave me egg yolk with rice cereal and meshed pear for dinner.

By then, I was awake for about 3 hours and I fell asleep on my bouncer soon after. But I woke up after sleeping less than an hour and cried as I was still tired but could not get back to sleep.

Mama tried to change me out of my dirty clothes which were soiled during dinner and gave me a milk feed. It didn't work and I still cried. She tried to cuddle me and sang to me but it also did not work. She tried to give me more milk but I regurgitated it and cried again. This made Mama angry as she had run out of patience (not that she had much to begin with anyway). So she scolded me for crying, throwing up the milk, causing her to have to change me again and she put me back to bed and told me to sleep on my own. I cried even louder when she scolded me. ;(


Eventually, she carried me in her arms and sang the hymn The Love of God to me softly and I soon settled down and fell asleep. Mama told Papa she suspected that I could not quite go to sleep as I have not reconciled with her after I had made her angry and she had scolded me. It could be that I wanted to be assured that we are reconciled and she still loves me before I go to sleep.


In the Holy Bible, it is written in Psalms that God grants sleep to those that He loves. When Mama first read this verse, she did not think much of it as everyone in this world sleeps and there is nothing special about sleeping. On more thought, she realised the verse would mean to say God loves everyone because everyone in this world sleeps! :D

Also, usually those who can't sleep are usually those who are not at peace either with God or with themselves. Extrapolating this, God must really love babies, especially newborns as they sleep so much and God is the one who grants this sleep to them. What a loving God we have. Are you able to go to sleep tonight? If not, then go to the loving God who grants sleep to those that He loves and find the peace and rest that you need for your body and your soul. Good night and sweet dreams. :)