Getting up is one thing. Getting out is another. But there’s something one of our readers reminded me about that can render them both moot. Know what it is? Yep. It’s the snooze alarm.
In our house it goes like this: Get up! (Snooz-z-z-ze.) Get up! (Snooz-z-z-ze.) Get up! (Snooz-z-z-ze.) And that right there is good for 30 minutes. But was it worth it?
Ever wonder about how effective those last three ten minute intervals of sleep are? Not very, would be my guess. It takes time to drop back into deep enough levels of sleep to mean anything. Had you just set your alarm for 30 minutes later and added that last 30 minutes of uninterrupted sleep onto what went before it, and then simply gotten up when the alarm went off the first time, you’d come out at the same place, but a lot further down the road and a lot less fatigued.
Whoever invented the snooze alarm will have to answer for the gradual slow takedown of civilization, as we know it. Effective, powerful, productive people rendered useless by a button. Lost in the realm of “Maybe.” Wandering in the land of Wait-and-See. Languishing in the Just-Nine-More-Minutes zone.
Jesus said to use a simple “Yes” or “No” (Matthew 5:37). He never said anything about “Maybe.” “Maybe” gets you nowhere. That is one word I can never imagine coming out of the mouth of Jesus. “Maybe” is the snooze alarm of life, and I have it from a reliable source that Jesus would never hit that button.
John Fischer The Catch 
Thanx brother John for the very good chuckles this gave me and the thankfulness I sincerely feel for the stroke I had years ago and now on a disability income and now it is a great motivator in asking people for their help in my attempts to work my way off of disability income. By expanding my home based business which is designed to help them to save time & money in their everyday shopping needs and in-return for their support, I promise to give them exceptional customer service.
So I am thankful that I no-longer have to go through the struggles of hitting that old snooze alarm and the thought of doing that until I was 65 didn’t excite me either! Plus it’s fun to make money while I sleep and own a willable & transferable business asset that can be passed down to my children’s children. As Proverbs 13:22 says to do: “A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children…” 🙂
This is not intended as an endorsement. I have not purchased one yet, but they have been around for years.
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