Waking

I walked softly for fear of waking the baby.

She sat still for fear of waking the baby.

Waking on the street, he met Jim.

He succeeded in waking Harry up.

He makes a habit of waking up early.

She was afraid of waking the baby.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, to risk their lives for us.

Waking up is the opposite of going to sleep.

I like waking up to music.

A waking nightmare

The city had as yet hardly drawn its first waking breath.

Counting occupied my every waking thought.

It is this gift of life that we are grateful to receive each waking moment, and so we give thanks, “for our lives, which are committed to Your power.”

[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.