Tough Week

For the past 3 weeks or so, I've not been sleeping well. Even though I'm exhausted, I can't fall asleep early. And I have to wake up early. Worst of all, I wake up with headaches.

Add teaching kids dancing, physical labour (moving stuff for 3 days), walking up 5 flights of stairs of 64 individual steps, unwanted encounters with construction workers who stare and try to flirt, and unpleasant guards to insufficient sleep and headaches, and you get a crazy week, plus aches in places in your body you didn't even know existed.

Sunday night, I was about ready to die. Before I went to sleep, I thought Oh God I can't take this anymore please just let me have a good night's sleep and wake up rested without headaches...

Today I woke up, refreshed and without headache. My calf and thigh muscles weren't aching either! I felt so happy, and this Bible verse just popped into my head: You do not have, because you do not ask God.

I'm so blessed because even with the tough week I went through, God's grace still abounds.

I never truly valued the feeling of waking up rested, until I knew how it was like to wake up feeling worse than when I went to sleep.