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God doesn't sleep
I often have trouble sleeping. I remember lots of crazy dreams each morning, which makes me think that when I do get to sleep in portions of the night, that I am not hitting a deep enough REM cycle to take advantage of restful sleep. I am also a night owl, not a morning person, and I do my best writing at night.
This can be an especially complicated problem on Sunday mornings... an over-heated church building only makes my eyelids heavier when it comes time for the sermon. I have been known to stand up at the back of the meeting place in order to stay awake and attentive.
Wait, Hope, and Expect
In Spanish and in Hebrew, there is a verb that can be translated three ways into English—wait, hope, or expect.
While each of those three words has their own nuances or unique connotations, let’s think about how much greater our hope would be if we wait, hope, and expect in the Lord.