I (Peter) often use songs to help me fall asleep, or go back to sleep if I have woken up in the night and can't stop thinking about stuff...
Here are some of my favorite peaceful, mind-quieting, rest-restoring songs! (And these sleeping "pills" have no known side effects!)
The version that appeals / works best for me is in parentheses.
Love songs:
- Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Sandy Denny (Judy Collins)
Songs of faith:
- Sanctuary by Eliza Gilkyson (Lucy Kaplansky & John Gorka)
- Christ Has No Body Now but Yours (
- Healer of the Broken-Hearted by Rena Branson (Psalm 147:3-4)
- Ahava Raba also by Branson (a morning prayer from Jewish liturgy re-imagined)
- Slow Down also by Branson (a chant)