Sleep does the body good...

Being sleep deprived, has never been my issue, until now.  Today, I had a mental breakdown. My mind had had enough and I lost it! I know you know the feeling, for we all been there. Most of the time we can deflect and keep from going off on someone physically. Or telling someone how you really are feeling.

But the lack of sleep can and will affect your body, both physically and mentally.  I watch my mother over the past week, very slowly become weaker each day, due to the lack of restful sleep. Of course, it affected me as well. I am trying my best to get her to do what is needed to help her body and mind, but there is so much negativity within her, that she resist without thinking about it.

When I was young, both my parents would tell us, "don't say can't". Telling us how we can do anything. Well, now my 93 year old mother, tells me how she "can't" lay down and go to sleep, when it comes to napping.  But I seen her do it so many times. Then today, Easter Sunday, something broke within her and she went to bed on her own. All week she fought me about going to bed, with last night being the worst. So today, I watched my mother, bent over, unable to stand up straight, move around the house, holding on to everything trying not to fall. I don't want to talk about her mental state.

My prayer tonight, is that God give her the restful sleep that she needs, so He can strengthen her body and mind. To give her the knowledge to recognize when it's time to lay her body down for a rest break, in Jesus name, Amen!

Lord help us both...