I do tend to get up early (no later than 5:30 a.m.) and go to bed a little late (around 11 p.m.) but I have always known the importance of sleep.  Today is Daylight Savings Time so we “spring forward” to lose an hour of precious slumber.  In the autumn we “fall back” and “gain” an hour.  I have never found an attribution but I have heard it said many times than an Indian (Native American) once said, “Only a white man would believe you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.”  I think Daylight Savings is ridiculous and actually detrimental.  And WHY must they always make it before church?  Daylight Savings Time is not observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands.  I think they’ve got the right idea being on “Island Time” which, by the way, is no different than being on “Indian time”.  It means things get done in their own time.  Arizona also does not observe DST and neither does the Navajo Nation.  In Europe they simply call it “summer time” and it begins at 1:00 a.m. Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time) the last Sunday in March and ends at 1:00 a.m. the last Sunday in October, which makes infinitely more sense to me.  The very term “savings” is a misnomer given that no daylight is being saved.  Regardless, the cycles remain the same.  Mother Moon follows Father Sun and they rise and set each day.  Our bodies know this.  So while I am feeling pretty accomplished right now I know the need for sleep will catch up with me.  And I will listen without shame.  Sleep is not laziness; it is God’s way of helping calm us, rest our bodies, and rejuvenate our minds.  In the meantime I think I shall pour myself a second cup of coffee.  God bless caffeine.