It has for some time now been the fashion to say that we are in a morass, and to attempt to get out of the morass by attacking Romanticism; and I am going to do this too.
[Iris Murdoch]

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.”