[T]here’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
[E.B. White]

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.”