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Thankful Thursday: Set Routines

Thursday, March 9, 2017

I am thankful
for the set routine
carried with me since childhood.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for DAY 1575
What do you do before bed at night? Do you have a set routine? Do you think a routine or pattern relaxes you before sleep? What do you think of at night when you're trying to fall asleep?

Set Routines

Set routines
become traditions
that either encourage
or discourage a poet's muse.

When we were children either our mother or our grandmother tough my siblings and I the following prayer which we said right before we went to bed.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.1

I'm sure it was one that they learned when they were children. One nighttime routine I've kept is to say a prayer before going to bed. When I because a Baha'i I begin reading the one of the evening prayers from the prayer book. I read it every night and eventually learned the prayer by heart. I still recite that prayer before going to bed. I think prayer is the only routine I have kept since childhood. The prayers I say may have changed through the years but the habit of saying a prayer has remained.

Footnotes
1  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_I_Lay_Me_Down_to_Sleep