In the recent past, I found myself scoffing at people who used the phrase ‘sleep like a baby.’ I’d think to myself, these people have obviously never stayed up all night with a baby who wouldn’t sleep, or one that gets up every hour, or just plain refuses to nap. Then we got the effects of Hurricane Michael, and I realized a new meaning of this phrase and child-like faith.

It was about four o clock in the morning. I was feeding baby girl and the weather was crazy outside! The wind was howling, lightning lit the room, rain was pouring down, and then the power went out. It was only out for a few seconds, but it was enough to startle me.

After baby girl was done eating, I put her back in her bed. I laid back down myself and waited to see if she’d wake back up. I could see out the window, and the trees were bending in the wind. I could hear the sounds of the garbage can lid outside banging against the house. I looked back down at baby girl, and she was still asleep. I stared in amazement. As I was having a hard time falling back asleep, she was sleeping through it all without a worry or care.

That is child-like faith: when you have so much peace and no worry for the storm raging around you, that you can ‘sleep like a baby.’

I have to admit, I don’t always have the faith that allows me to sleep, or be calm, or be at peace when the storms of life come my way. I sat back up and started praying. The thought of Jesus in the boat came to my mind. When the storm started to build, and the disciples started to fear,  Jesus was simply sleeping. He was exemplifying that child-like faith that we are called to have.

Two Sundays later, the sermon was on peace in the storm. (I love it when God solidifies the lessons He has for us!) The truth is, there will be storms… that’s life! Even with Jesus in the boat, there was a storm. The question is:

Do we focus on the storm, or do we allow His perfect peace to overshadow us in the eye of it all?

The awkward truth is I have a pretty short fuse… I get annoyed pretty easily, even with small things. (I think it’s a short person thing) I am working on it though! This week I have been reminding myself that there will be hard times, but He is always there to say ‘peace, be still.”. Instead of getting caught up in what’s not going right, or just the fact that it’s not going right, I have started to work on shifting my attention to the peace that surrounds the problem. Knowing that Jesus is in the boat with me, and that He brings peace, that’s going to help me sleep like a baby!