A Restful Night

 When I wake up from a good night’s sleep, I am rested.  This good feeling can fool me into thinking that I am spiritually fine too, as if sleep healed all my shortcomings or took them away.  Sometimes, when I wake up rested, I think that I have all this energy and want to get on with the “doing” of an active life, saving the world and such.  I will pray “later.”  Then the day goes downhill with my ego in charge and my spiritual life starving and weakened.  So I try to wake up and remind myself that I am a spiritually sick person in need or recovery and that I now have the energy to pray first and then see about saving the world, or at least correcting all the shortcomings of others.  Prayer usually gives me a second opinion about what to do in the world of “action.”