What does it mean to rest? Since I’ve heard about rest for the past 4 days straight, I have a feeling that someone’s trying to tell me something. Ü (side note….thanks Jess for Sunday…it was good!!)
I took this past Friday off to get together with some friends and it was the best thing for me. I feel more energized then I usually do if I sleep all weekend. (which hardly ever happens) I did nothing. We went to Pokagon and sat by the fire for a good 4 hours. Sometimes talking; sometimes not saying anything. At first, I have to admit, it was hard for me to just sit there and do nothing. I don’t know how many of you have noticed, but I’m on the go non-stop and it’s really hard for me to take a break. Usually I just go and go until I drop. And then I pick myself back up and start over again. My schedule is pretty set in stone. I know what I do on Mondays and I have every detail down to the minute. Get up at 6:30, leave the house by 7:15, get to work by 7:40, Bible time until 7:55, and clock in at 8. Leave work at 5, get to the gym at 5:15, leave 5:50, Campus life at 6:30, Get home 9, go to bed, 10:30. Everyday is exactly like this. I have a feeling that we all have very hectic schedules and that you could all send me your schedules and we could sit and compare and have a grand old time looking over this craziness.
So I guess the question that I want to ask is, how do we find rest amidst our crazy schedules? How do I get the rest that I got on Friday on a weekly basis? Because I know that I don’t have enough personal time to take off every Friday for the rest of the year. Does that mean that I get rid of a going to the gym on Monday’s so I can sit in a bookstore and read for an hour? I’m still not sure how I’m going to shuffle my schedule around; all I know is that I’m going to start resting on a normal basis. And that doesn’t mean taking a 15 minute nap in my car everyday. I need to practice being still. I need to take a break from the norm.
I hope this makes sense to just a few of you. If not, sorry for my ramblings.:0)
2 comments:
sorry it's taken me so long to comment...i've been resting...some say sleeping, but it's often the same to me...
i try to find periods during each day to rest...it takes many forms each day; i often feel guilty that i have a job that allows that kind of flexibility, but then i thank God for it and i am then ok...
if you are a reader, i suggest the book "living with less - the upside of downsizing your life"...it gives many practical thoughts as it relates to humbly downsizing your life - financially and materially, obviously, but more so our activity, thinking, selfishness, etc...
i have a copy, but my wife is reading it right now...
what i have been developing is a healthy contentment...a thankfulness that "it is for freedom that Christ has set us free" and that i don't HAVE to do anything for that freedom, but being content with even that smallest adjustment in my thinking and behavior...praying that God is glorified by that and that He will continue to push my toward making larger changes in my mind, heart and life that transform me more and more into than image of His Son, but at the same time, doesn't make me beat myself up terribly when i struggle with said changes...that keeps me humbly submitted to needing Him in the center of it all...
in Him,
craig
to quote rush "ditto" to what craig said. alex i learned a valuable lesson while i was on the sub,we worked on an 18hr day 6 on 12 off,during the "off" time we would have drills,training and that is when you did your work. i remember when i first got aboard i would stay up waiting for the next drill to happen,needless to say that=little rest. so i learned to take advantage of the rest time in between,be that 5 min or 2 hrs. i rambled but i hope that helps.-pat
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