
A Psalm of Rest
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The Importance of Sleep
In the Psalm, God gives sleep to his beloved while they're asleep. "God invented us with the need of sleep as a parable," he says. The Bible doesn't tell us why, but I've got an idea: It's because we are so frail that you have to become helpless and unconscious and blind every day or you can live in that humiliating and humbling.
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