Thoughts in the night

woke up in the middle of the night to a scary image buried in my mind... this happens often coz of my hyperactive imagination. Takes me all of 1 night to recover from scary movies, stories etc. By the 2nd night i'm fine coz i'm usually too tired to care whether anything gets me at night.

Prayed hard for a way out of this fear, for God to take away the horrible thoughts and just help me to sleep peacefully... really wanted to let go of it and be free again from the fear that grips. So i started singing some hymns in my head (Be thou my vision, usually helps) and then i started to fill my mind with the good things that have been happening recently and the warm happy thoughts of the evening before.

There's no real formula to how God works but thankfully... He does. And before i knew it i was back in the arms of slumber