Anapausis

I slept 12 hours last night but sometimes it’s necessary for a pause. I am actually quite glad of the fact that I was able to sleep through that long! I realized what the problem was, or rather what the solution is to my sleeping travails. It’s drinking good water - the Kirkland Signature kind. Two nights of this bottled water and I’ve been sleeping a sound 12 hours.

You see, previous to this I’d been drinking “filtered” water. But this water never quenched my third. My throat would feel parched, like there was something lodged in the back of my throat. I’d have to drink some water to satiate my throat but my throat would still feel “dry” at the same time. Then, I’d have to drink more of this water to hydrate my throat. Then I’d have to wake up and go pee in the middle of the night, but my throat would still be dry, and after emptying my bladder I’d drink some more water, forcing me to wake up and repeat the whole cycle again. I was never satiated drinking this “filtered” water.

After two nights of going to bed with bottled water and waking up 12 hours later, that’s when I realized what the problem was. The source of water was bad, leading to bad stuff in my body and bad quality sleep.

Upon returning to the US I immediately felt the need to perform. Two days after I landed in the country, after being gone for two years, I found myself applying for jobs. The US is so much about performing. It’s not even about producing (consuming if anything). The US really is about performing - this of course finds its highlight in the Academy Awards. But in the office place we also have our performances - key performance measures, anyone? We might not win an award at the Oscars but we sure do put on a performance at work, right? This is what I realized after two consecutive nights of 12-hour sleeps.

This is what anapausis is - resting again. It is not the idea of simply sitting idle but rather truly resting. I am so thankful to the Lord for those long rests; they don’t come often enough! This rest came from truly good water. The filter I was drinking water from was quite old; I was deceived into thinking I was drinking good water! But I never knew how good of a water I was missing out on until I drank truly good water. It’s the same with AI. AI is so surrealistic that we can’t even recognize the real things. We are so used to seeing fake things we don’t recognize them as fake anymore, so much so that when the actual real thing comes along we can’t tell it’s real anymore! We can’t recognize its authenticity because we’ve been around fake stuff too long!

And all these thoughts from drinking some real good water. I hope you find your source of living water and living the good life.