Sleep Therapy by Lauren Winner:
“A night of good sleep—a week, or month, or year of good sleep—also testifies to basic Christian story of Creation. We are creatures, and we are creatures with bodies that are finite and contingent. The unarguable demands that our bodies make for sleep are a good reminder that we are mere creatures, not the Creator. For it is God and God alone who “neither slumbers nor sleeps.” Of course, the Creator has slept, another startling reminder of the radical humility He embraced in becoming Incarnate….”
“French poet Charles Peguy makes the point well:
I don’t like the man who doesn’t sleep, says God.
Sleep is the friend of man,
Sleep is the friend of God.
Sleep is perhaps the mot beautiful thing I have created.
And I myself rested on the seventh day..
But they tell me that there are men
Who work well and sleep badly.
Who don’t sleep. What a lack of confidence in me.”
