If you snooze you do not lose

Good morning, everyone,

Our theme for this month: “Live long, live well”

Our Bible verse for today: “I lie down and sleep; I wake again because the Lord sustains me.” Psalm 3:5 (CSB)

Our thought for today: “If you snooze you do not lose”

There’s an old saying that goes, “If you snooze you lose.” I disagree. At least in part. That saying is intended to be a cryptic way of discouraging procrastination and in that respect, I suppose it’s true that “If you snooze you do lose.” But when it comes to snoozing at night, as in “getting a good night’s sleep”, if you snooze you win.

The question of course, is how do we accomplish that? How do we succeed in getting a good night’s sleep, every night? The reasons people don’t sleep well vary considerably, but there are some reasons that are common and there are some simple solutions to those common problems.

According to studies conducted by healthnet.com and the Cleveland Clinic, one of the biggest reasons people don’t sleep well is because they don’t have the right mattress. The surface you sleep on is the starting place, the foundation upon which a good night’s sleep is built. If the surface is wrong for you then you will be uncomfortable all night long. Sleep experts agree that a good mattress is essential to a good night’s sleep.

But a good mattress is expensive, right? Well, yes. Yes, it is. As with most things, you get what you pay for. Aimee and I have a Sleep Number mattress. It has a wide variety of settings to adjust the firmness for each of us. Both of us had been having trouble sleeping through the night, often waking with aches and pains in our back, neck, shoulders, arms, and legs. It turned out that our mattress was the problem. We spent the money to purchase a mattress that properly supports all the different pressure points of the body, and doing so went a long way towards dramatically improving the quality of sleep for both of us. But it wasn’t cheap.

Personally, I believe your mattress is the most important piece of furniture in your home. If getting a good night’s sleep is one of the most important things you can do to help improve your health and therefore your overall quality of life (it is), and if your mattress is perhaps the most important factor in determining the quality of your sleep, then your mattress is the most important piece of furniture in your home and it is worth what you pay for it.

How much did you pay for your living room furniture? How about that nice dining room set? How much did you spend to remodel your kitchen, or your bathroom? None of those things will have as big an impact on the quality of your life as will the quality of your mattress.

Why is this discussion an appropriate topic for a devotional message? Because God designed the human body to need good sleep. Therefore, a good night’s sleep is God’s will for you and if you are not getting it, steps need to be taken to correct that. Getting a better mattress may be the first change you should consider. Tomorrow we will consider some other factors that impact our sleep and we will think about some steps we can take to deal with those.

God bless,
Pastor Jim

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