You have to keep your eye on the job because words are very sly, the rubbishy ones go into hiding and you have to dig them out—repetition, synonyms, things that simply don’t mean anything.
[Isaak Babel]

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.”