Feb.27.03: Light For The Day - "Vitamin Zzzzzzzz" -- Psalm 127:2 (NKJV) "It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sleep." --------------------------- Medical researchers are coming to what may seem to be a common sense conclusion: a missing ingredient to health may be "vitamin Zzzzzzzz." When participants in one study were cheated out of four hours of sleep for four consecutive nights, they had on average a 30 percent drop in their immune systems, as measured by natural killer-cell activity. Such a drop can readily increase a person's susceptibility to colds and flu, and perhaps to other serious diseases. Says a sleep researcher, "Many people just need a regular length sleep to get those natural killer cells revved up again." While a steady diet of sufficient sleep may not completely prevent disease, it can improve the body's defense system and help a person combat disease more efficiently and effectively. Sleep is the cheapest health aid a person can "take." Sleep is God's own means of restoring health to the body, as well as providing rest to the mind. Many have reported a new outlook or a change of heart after a good night's sleep. Ask God to renew your strength as you sleep tonight ... then got to bed on time so He can give you what you requested! -- Unknown ------------------------------ -- Psalms 4:8 (NIVUS) "I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety." -- Ecclesiastes 5:12 (NKJV) "The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, Whether he eats little or much; But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep."