SENTINEL WATCH September 17, 2007 Issue

THE SOURCE OF TRUE REST

RICHARD NENNEMAN

Now I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP,
I PRAY THE LORD MY SOUL TO KEEP.

Those lines from a well-loved 18th-century children's prayer popped into thought the other night, when my wife said she was having a hard time freeing her mind of the images of squalid refugee camps in Dave Eggers's fictionalized memoir What Is the What, which she was reading at bedtime.

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