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Committee to Red Skeleton said that any kid will run any errand for you if you ask at bedtime.

Human beings have an innate aversion to sleep.

Toddlers resist nap time.

Children fight going to bed.

Even adults seem desperate to grab every moment with activity

until we finally collapse into bed after one last look at the smartphone.

Maybe that's because rest brings us to a complete stop. Though vital for our well-being, it means calling a halt to all other

activity. While we are at rest, we can do nothing, produce nothing, communicate nothing, and if we can't do anything, then why are we here?

There's a story in the Hebrew scriptures that's held dear by each of the world's three major religions.

It's a story about a group of people who were slaves for some 400 years.

Their job was to make bricks.

That's what they did day after day, seven days a week, for centuries.

Then along came a deliverer named Moses, who led the people to freedom, and Moses established

a rule for these newly liberated people.

They had to take one day off each week. On the seventh day, they

were to stop. Cease work, do nothing. And here's the fascinating thing about the story.

Some of them couldn't do it. Their work had

become more than a job or a burden. It had become their identity.

We're all slaves of a sort, aren't we? To smartphones,

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