Welcome to Abide's sleep meditations. I'm Tyler Boss.

Today's meditation is sponsored by Faithful Counseling.com, where they combine biblical wisdom with clinical expertise in mental health.

Faithful counseling can bring God's healing to you. Just go to faithfulcounselling.com slash abide.

Remember, you can listen to all our sleep stories by downloading Abide from the app store.

Now, relax your mind and body as we hear tonight's sleep story.

Welcome to this Abide bedtime story. Good to this abide bedtime story.

Good night stress.

I'm Bonnie Curry.

Often when you lay down to sleep, your mind kicks into high gear, and it can be so

hard to slow it down.

While there are so many things that fight for your attention, bedtime is a time of rest.

So choose to say good night to stress and to the things that beg you to notice them as you rest in the peace of God.

With your eyes closed, take a slow, deep breath.

Breathing in through your nose, let your lungs fill with air, feeling your abdomen expand. Pause for a moment before slowly exhaling through

your mouth letting your stomach deflate as you do relax your shoulders into your bed

feeling the tension dissolve adjust your neck and head as they rest on your pillow point and flex your toes feeling that stretch all the way through your legs do this once more letting the stress of your day release take another

deep breath remembering that your day is done all that is set before you now is to rest in peace that is the gift of God let me pray for

you father God we give you thanks for who you are. Thank you for your kindness and grace. Thank you for your

everlasting peace. Thank you that in you this beloved child can find rest. as they lie down to sleep tonight let them feel

your presence and know that you are near there are so many things that are begging for

their attention but what you know they need is rest, not just for their body, but deep within their soul.

Only you can bring the deep rest that they need.

...