{"id":8408,"date":"2021-06-03T06:42:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rai.tip.temporary.site\/musings\/?p=8408"},"modified":"2025-04-27T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T21:09:55","slug":"ants-and-insomnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splanescorner.us\/musings\/ants-and-insomnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants and Insomnia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>I looked at the time again as I sat on the couch, playing my game on my phone. It was 2:00 AM! I had to be up at 5:00 to get ready for work. Insomnia had plagued me for months. Nothing I tried had worked. I read article after article online about solutions for insomnia. I tried many, but still there were so many nights that I just could not go to sleep, so I would sit up until 12, 1, 2 AM until I got sleepy enough to fall asleep. After all the articles I read about insomnia, I felt like I had become somewhat of an expert at why I had this issue, but still no solution worked.<\/p>\n<p>So I prayed and asked God to show me what the problem was. i knew <strong>He knew<\/strong> what it was and what would resolve it. A few days later, after dinner, I noticed ants on my kitchen counter, a <strong>LOT<\/strong> of ants. I couldn't tell where they were coming from. My husband had some ant bait, so we put it on the end of the counter.<\/p>\n<p>Then something my mother used to tell me kept running through my mind, <em>\"Don't leave food or dirty dishes sit out. They will draw bugs.\" <\/em>It kept coming back to me several days in a row. it was a few days later, and still the ants kept coming. We kept putting out ant bait.<\/p>\n<p>Then one evening after dinner, I had what is called a \"lightbulb\" moment. I had gotten in the habit of stacking my dishes on the counter after dinner, and doing them before I went to bed. I don't know why I started doing that. Then, when I would get up to do the dishes before going to bed, it would wake me up, so I got a second wind, and I would be up until 12, 1, or 2 AM unable to go to sleep. I realized that was why the ants were coming, and subsequently why I couldn't go to sleep at night. My body was telling me it was time to sleep, and instead I was getting up and washing dishes, and then I would be up late unable to go to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>So...I knew God was showing me the solution and I changed. I began to clean up my dishes immediately after dinner. And when I began to get sleepy, I would get ready and go to bed. It was a wonderful answer to prayer, I haven't had a problem going to sleep from that night on.<\/p>\n<p>God is good, and He always answers prayer. He is faithful to show us the way.<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Proverbs%203%3A24&amp;version=NIV\">Proverbs 3:24<\/a><em>When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your<\/em><em> <\/em><em><strong>sleep <\/strong><\/em><em>will be 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