Rest

Take rest, beloved.

I know you are weary from it all.

The wait has been long, the confusion too thick, the disappointment too great or perhaps the loss too unbearable.

Friends, I’m slowly learning to take care.

When our emotions get exhausted and our souls seem to be missing the passion we once had, it’s time to slow down. It’s time to pay attention to the longings of our inner man that needs to just surrender all manner of striving and be still.

“Be still and know that I am God.”

(Psalm 46:10)

While there are many ways to rest and refresh ourselves, I feel that committing to what is most authentic to us is the most fruitful.

While rest càn be enjoyed in the stillness and serenity of creation, it can also take the form of a date with Jesus over a cup of cappuccino at Starbucks. It can look like fixing a jigzaw puzzle in the cosy comfort of your room, or even perhaps cooking your favorite meal in the kitchen against the backdrop of some gentle, soothing strains of music.

For me though?

It has recently manifested as some daily down time with Jesus over ‘mint water.’

As I stroll into my kitchen for breakfast in the morning, there it is. Sitting pretty in a glass bottle that my mother fixes for me, it is a most beautiful reminder to intentionally carve out some time that day to sip, to abide, to be.

5 mins.

That’s all it really takes.

But the worth and value of investing that time to reconnect, reset and revitalise has been life transforming.

It sends a gentle yet firm reminder to my soul that it deserves rest and is worthy of it. It helps me to know that I am not a cog in a machine. Rather, I am a beautiful Child of God who is blessed each day to be alive, to be free and to be at rest.

Jesus loves to give rest to us, friends. He knows us by name and holds us close. But the rush of the world that we live in can and does stifle our consciousness of it. So to combat this, what do we do?

We rest.

We cease all manner of striving for some carefully chiseled out time in the day to simply reconnect with the Source of it all, to breathe and to recharge for whatever lies ahead.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

(Matthew 11:28)

I’m going.
Are you?

🧋🥤