I’m up too early this morning. It was another restless Sunday night. Sleepless nights have been with me for a very long time now. Others have told me, ”I’ve heard that the elderly don’t require as much sleep as those younger than them.” Well, I won’t say what comes to mind when I hear that said. Yet, I can’t help but wonder how I can be so sleepy that I’m not able to keep my eyes open at eight PM and wake up at 9:20 PM wide awake and unable to return to sleep mode. If, this is all the sleep that’s required for my age, no wonder those patriarchs of the Bible that lived six, seven, eight hundred years and more were so revered… they never slept. Moreover, anyone that lives for several hundred years would accumulate such a vast amount of empirical knowledge alone to warrant respect for the wisdom they could share. Reality is, being awake twenty-four seven and not getting rest is not possible for any extended period of time, at any age, this I know,

However, living five hundred years and retaining a body with five senses able to enjoy all of God’s creation would be a Blessing beyond belief. This I know, too.