Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of Our Spiritual Father

by Donald H. Calloway

Just sleep. Why don’t people make use of it? I’ve given this secret to everyone, says God. I haven’t sold it. He who sleeps well, lives well. He who sleeps, prays. He who works, prays too. But there’s time for everything. Both for sleep and for work. Work and sleep are like two brothers. And they get on very well together. And sleep leads to work just like work leads to sleep. He who works well sleeps well, he who sleeps well works well. And yet they tell me that there are men who don’t sleep. I don’t like the man who doesn’t sleep, says God. Sleep is the friend of man. Sleep is the friend of God. Sleep may be my most beautiful creation. And I too rested on the seventh day. He whose heart is pure, sleeps. And he who sleeps has a pure heart. This is the great secret to being as indefatigable as a child. Yes, they tell me that there are men who work well and who sleep poorly. Who don’t sleep. What a lack of confidence in me. I’m talking about those who work and who don’t sleep. I pity them. I’m talking about those who work, and who thus in doing this are following my commandment, poor children. And who, on the other hand, don’t have the courage, don’t have the confidence to sleep. I pity them. I hold it against them. A bit. They don’t trust me. As a child lays innocently in his mother’s arms, thus do they not lay innocently in the arms of my Providence. They have the courage to work. They don’t have the courage to do nothing. They possess the virtue of work. They don’t posse...