Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it all, right away, every time. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water.
[Annie Dillard]

Today, from “Gestures Toward a Theology of Sleep,” this thought on how the absence of insomnia is Lutheran:

“4. To use what seems like it must be a well-worn metaphor: one cannot force oneself to sleep, but can only put oneself in a posture of receiving the gift of sleep. So it is with salvation. Sleep is thus a deeply Lutheran activity.”