August 10, 2005 10:49 PM
Sleep Sound in Jesus
My days have been very crowded with kids' activities and still catching up from being gone twice last month. I'm ordering books for Maddy - so excited about homeschooling again this year - and selling stuff on ebay and doing radio interviews for my last two books.
But as we put the little ones to bed tonight, I wondered if everyone else knows about the most wonderful go-to-sleep music out there: Sleep Sound in Jesus by Michael Card.
A nurse gave it to me when Jonny was recovering from his first surgery right after he was born in 1992. I had never known the kind of exhaustion that comes from having a child and not being able to bring him home, nor the anguish of not knowing if he would pull through his difficulties.
I would lay my head beside Jonny's fragile body with all the tubes running in and out and the beeping monitors and I'd play that tape and sing along with Michael Card. It was as though I was being sung to and reassured as well.
This wonderful tape has so many special songs. In 13 years, I've never grown bored with them. My favorites are "Even the Darkness is Light to Him" and "For He Grants Sleep to the One that He Loves." You can hear little snippets of them here too.
I recommend it to every family. It will remind you how special your children are to you and how special all his children are to our Heavenly Father.
Comments
That is a good tape. I think "He will wipe away your tears" might be on there.
Posted by: Julana | August 11, 2005 8:05 AM
Thanks for the suggestion. I have friends whose infant son was born in April with a congenital diaphramic hernia. He's been in the NICU going on four months now. I might have to buy this CD for them.
Posted by: Jana | August 11, 2005 11:18 AM
That's one of my favorite two lullabye cds.
Posted by: TulipGirl | August 13, 2005 4:23 PM
