All Night Long...

One night, I was awake at  2:30 am. Why? My mother had a nightmare and it took a few to get her to calm down and go back to bed. As for me, I am unable to fall back to sleep, seeing I didn't get to sleep close to midnight.  It took me a long time to settle down and when my mind was ready to go to sleep, she is awake again at 5 am, confused and thinking it was time to go.

I was able to get her to lay down again, but I'm afraid the high winds are not going to allow her to go back too sleep.

I am working to get her on a schedule with a lot of things. The two main things is when to eat and bedtime. She did go to bed close to the time I would like. I have notice, we have a pretty decent day, when she gets 12 hours of sleep. Of course that's not the case on today. I believe we will be napping most of today, at least that's is my pray.

But it seems that at least once a week of late, she has been having disturbing dreams, but it came back to me, those type of dreams are not of God. So in my nighttime prayers, I ask for calming of her mind as she sleep and rebuke satan. I learn early in life, by way of the scriptures, if you rebuke the devil, he will flee.  Of course as a child, I'm not sure if I believed it or not. But lately,  oh yeah, I believe!! I been rebuking him like crazy and God truly stepped in.

Now, I'm not saying all is back to her baseline, but we are slowly getting there. I am really working on not allowing her confused mind to upset me so much. I just have to remind myself, it will be much better in the morning.

It's a merry-go-round...