When You Cannot Sleep

When You Cannot Sleep: Peace for the Racing Mind at 3am

It is late, and you are still awake, and the thoughts will not stop. The fear that stayed quiet all day has come out now that the room is dark, and every worry feels twice its size. If you are reading this in the middle of the night, you are not alone in it, and there is a gentler place to put your mind than the churn. For thousands of years the church has ended the day with a quiet prayer that lays the whole world down in God's hands before sleep, because the One who keeps you does not slumber, and you do not have to hold the night together yourself. Jesus slept through a storm on a cushion in the back of a boat, and when they woke Him in fear He stood and said to the wind and the water, peace, be still. That is the peace on offer here. Each page below meets one kind of sleeplessness, gives you real words from Scripture to hold in the dark, and points you toward rest in Him. Lie down. You are kept.