Our little girl slept last night. Is it too much to ask for two nights in a row? Maybe that’s just being greedy. We’ll know in about ten hours.
When the girls came home from Ethiopia three years ago, we knew that we may need to get used to waking up in the night once again. Thomas was nine years old, and it had been years since we were wakened by a needy child in the night. Shega, at four, struggled to fall asleep at first. It is hard to relax when your whole life has been turned up-side-down! Megan, at 12 months, was still a baby and was used to waking up in the night. In fact, when Megan was still in the care center in Ethiopia, she woke up 4 – 5 times each night, according to the paperwork we received when we were there.
I decided that I would use any time that I was awake in the night to pray. I certainly had a lot of time to pray during that first year. Shega needed me to lay with her until she slept. Megan needed to be rocked and comforted in the night. Steve and I were both up a lot and I my prayer life was well attended to.
During the past year, both girls slept well. Until recently, we were rarely needed in the night. I am not sure what happened to Megan over the past month. She simply isn’t sleeping well at all. My prayer life has suffered since I have been sleeping the whole night through.
I do hope that the old addage, "This too shall pass" comes true quickly. It’s not that I don’t need the prayer time, its just that I’m getting too old or out of practice to pray coherently in the middle of the night.
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