Sleep

It is late at night and I cannot sleep.

This never used to happen to me.

I always said that sleep was one of the gifts God gave me.

I sleep so deeply that, if someone calls and wakes me, not only will I not remember our conversation, I will not remember who called, or even that there was a call.

When my kids were babies, and sleeping in the crook of my arm, Moshe would have to shake me awake -- whoever said that mothers naturally wake to their babies' cries?

Lately, I wake in the middle of the night and, rather fitfully, return to sleep.

But when I sleep, I sleep.

Sleep is a wonderful escape... from pain, from cancer, from everything...

Yet, every once in a while, sleep escapes me.

I lie in bed and find it difficult to turn off my brain, even though I am so tired.


Please daven (or send happy, healing thoughts) for RivkA bat Teirtzel.

With love and optimism,
RivkA