Iremember when our boys were young and one of them was a horrible sleeper for a season, meaning we were up with him several times a night.
One morning, flustered and angry over the exhaustion I felt, and excusing myself from any form of discipline or accountability, I looked over and saw Troy getting out of bed to spend time in the Word.“How can you afford to get up and read your Bible? I’m so exhausted and fed up with the lack of sleep!”
I asked, “How can you afford to get up and read your Bible? I’m so exhausted and fed up with the lack of sleep!”
Troy gently (and without conveying shame or guilt) confessed: “Babe, honestly, I’m not sure if I can afford not to.”
To this day, every morning Troy gets up before the sun rises to “get his heart happy in the Lord” (a phrase from his favorite George Mueller quote).
And the happiness must be contagious because each of our boys eventually trickles downstairs to join him, starting with our oldest man cub.