{"id":110,"date":"2006-05-02T08:36:40","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.ragedied.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2006-05-02T08:36:40","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T14:36:40","slug":"sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/2006\/05\/02\/sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleep&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" title=\"sleeping beauty\" alt=\"sleeping beauty\" src=\"http:\/\/journal.ragedied.com\/wp-images\/zzz.png\" \/> How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest &#8211; and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. (Proverbs 6:9-11, NIV)<\/p>\n<p>Do not love sleep or you will grow poor; stay awake and you will have food to spare. (Proverbs 20:12-14, NIV)<\/p>\n<p>The bible tells use not to love our sleep but sleep is not a waste of time and sinful in and of itself. As I was looking for the above verses, I also ran across this one:<\/p>\n<p>If GOD doesn&#8217;t build the house, the builders only build shacks.<br \/>\nIf GOD doesn&#8217;t guard the city, the night watchman might as well nap.<br \/>\n<span class=\"sup\" id=\"en-MSG-16094\" \/>It&#8217;s useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves? (Psalm 127:1-2, MSG)<br \/>\nMe, I can be lazy, getting enough sleep is not an issue. I need to listen more to the first two verses then the last one. But for some of you, my friends, I am concerned. You&#8217;re always on the go, always doing something, running yourself ragged with the concerns of this life.<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking about this when I read a Relevant article called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.relevantmagazine.com\/life_article.php?id=6424\">&#8216;Sleep: It Does a Body Good&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>, and reminded of the topic again with a podcast from IT Conversations called Tech Nation that had an  <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itconversations.com\/shows\/detail1038.html\">interview with sleep and dream medicine specialist, Dr Rubin Naiman<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article, listen to the podcast and take heed my friends \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest &#8211; and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man. (Proverbs 6:9-11, NIV) Do not love sleep or you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-on-counseling","category-pass-it-on"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4pNDf-sleep","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}