Sleep has obvious physical benefits—relaxation, energy restoration, growth, and healing, to name a few. Sleep helps you to live longer by giving your body a chance to focus on strengthening and repairing itself. You may spend a third of your life sleeping, but it’s hardly a waste of time, because without it you wouldn’t live long enough to enjoy all the time you’d save by not sleeping. And that’s not the half of it!

The spiritual benefits from sleep are even greater and longer lasting, because your spirit is immortal, eternal. Freer from the mental habits, material concerns, and other distractions that dominate your waking hours, your spirit is more attuned to the spirit world when your body is asleep. This gives Me time and opportunity to work in your life in ways that I’m not always able to when you are preoccupied with other things. Sleep is a learning time and sometimes a testing time. It’s also a time when your spirit can explore realms and discover truths that your mortal mind can’t fathom. But most of all, I want it to be a loving time—a time when you can tap into My Spirit, experience My love in fuller measure, and learn to let it guide your thoughts and decisions.That’s easier than you may think. All you need to do is commit any unfinished business or problems of the day to Me and ask Me to watch over you, and I will.

Come away with Me tonight! Find sweet rest and perfect peace at My side. Leave behind the problems and cares of this life, and catch glimpses of the world to come. Marvel at all I have in store for all those who love Me. Thrill to wonders of My love!