To Sleep

It may seem strange to some of us to think that entering into sleep could be prayer. Many of us say prayers before we turn off the light, but we seldom think of consciously giving ourselves over to the losing of our daytime awareness for the
mysteries of sleep and dreams.

Attended, this process is a lived prayer of trust, a meditation of self-abandonment in God...

...M E D I T A T I O N

Peeling off our clothes and stripping away
our daytime concerns,
could we become available to silence?

Could we turn these acts of “getting ready” for sleep
into offerings...



Taken from Simple ways by Gunilla Norris