Weighted blankets are great because they stimulate serotonin through deep pressure and help people sleep better. However, some people experience side effects from using them and they only provide temporary relief. Weighted blankets are hot, heavy, and can aggravate pain and symptoms of anxiety.
Fear, worry, disease, behaviors, addiction and lack are the weights we experience as we live life. Here is where we turn to the weight of the blanket to bring us relief, but the blanket doesn’t lessen our problems and instead, adds to our heaviness and keeps us trapped and immobile.
To be in God’s glory or “kavod” is to be under His weighty presence. His weighted blanket is freedom. It is to experience the very essence of the Lord. It’s so powerful that it moves you spiritually and physically. You feel his touch from the inside out and as it reaches your physical body you are overcome. When you feel His presence you are aware of every cell and simultaneously feel like you are out of your body. You’re light and heavy at once; free and caught up in Him. You’re at peace and yet, undone; in the unknown, but secure and certain of your fate. His weighty presence is ultimate peace and healing.
His weight cancels out the weight of the world. The world uses weighted blankets for temporary relief, but the Lord uses His presence for everlasting freedom. Exchange the weights of life and temporary solutions of mankind for the unending and wholly satisfying weight of God.
When you live under God’s glory you don’t have to lie down to get relief, you lay your problems down. Go to a place where you don’t live under the weight of your problems, you rise above them and they live under your faith and His power and authority.
The Woolgatherer 