Spiritual Warfare
“Sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do is take a nap”, Rex Gutwein, a Biblical Prof. had changed my life with those words. I needed to hear them desperately the day he uttered them. I was running on absolute empty and those around me were starting to suffer the consequences of my sleep deprived irritation. They were words that gave me permission to stop for a min. and rest. Fast forward fifteen years into the future, and I shared my teacher’s wisdom on the internet. I was immediately hit with comments about how a nap cannot be spiritual. I was told that was encouraging laziness. I also was told more than once that psychology had crept into the church. I was shocked to read the comments. I did not see why anyone was against such a benign comment, or how they had read psych dependance into it. ...