Closing out a month of rest feeling this exhausted is something of an irony. But I’ve learned a few things along the way.
The more you think about something, the more you find it.
I know. It may sound obvious. But the more I began to think about the concept of rest, the more I was apt to actually take a nap, the more I noticed it in conversation, and the more I began to connect the other ideas in my life to the idea of rest. This isn’t some weird “The Secret” thing, but maybe it’s like when you buy a dark blue mini-van you start to see dark-blue mini vans everywhere. Do you have one too? I thought so.
God speaks more loudly to me when I’m listening.
Or maybe he’s been speaking that loudly all along, but the junk between my ears and his whispers has been lessened. For whatever weird reason, I feel like this month has been a close conversation between me and God and I love it.
Rest doesn’t exactly make you less tired, but it makes you more sane.
I don’t know about you, but a nap/period of rest doesn’t always kill the fatigue. But it does help order my heart and my thoughts around what is important. True story.
If you love something, set it free.
Let me explain. It’s like anything else: once you give up your right to it, many times it seems to come beckoning and calling at the right times and places. This past month, sometimes I really did have to schedule and discipline myself to slow down. But sometimes it just came in like a sweet breeze that I hadn’t asked for. I love it when life happens like that. Maybe this feels like it flies in the face of number one, but what I think this last one means is that once we stop grabbing on tightly to the idea of something, sometimes we are surprised at what it actually looks like when it does come.
So there we have it. Thirty-one (minus two) days of Rest. I hope you’ve enjoyed it as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it.
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