Silly girl come rest with me!
I have been on a bit of high for the last 6 to 7 days you could say. With having to paint our new apartment, clean it so it is livable, go to work and be able to function properly, I kinda feel like I haven't slept in a week. Then with the move right after it it has been interesting to say the least!!You know that saying "what goes up must come down" well I am experiencing that quiet abruptly and realizing that I must have been sticken high. The coming down is hitting hard, but at the same time I am still going. I am having a hard time letting myslef come down. Though my body is trying to tell me other wise.
It is neat through this experience I have sort of realized a couple of things. 1.) being that I do have a hard time fully resting and taking time when can feel my body arguing with me (which is not new news for me) 2.) being that maybe God is showing me something in all of this. Like maybe I treat my spiritual life the same as I push myself physically? I am trying to learn, learn, learn when God is just saying to me come and REST in me and we will have fun and learn together. I don't want you to push yourself that fare come and sit! Something to really think about and work on changing.
And I know that there are some if not all of you out there going duh!!! I want you guys to know that when I push myself that hard I know it's not good... I just have to take the expextation off and let myself REST!
posted by LA @ 12:30 PM
7 Comments:
duh!!! :)i'm glad you're finally learning to rest.
does that mean you're becoming an old fart like me? *kidding* (maybe)
That's really cool that God is teaching you to just enjoy him. He's been teaching me that too. And Matt talked about that too. Interesting that we're all learning it.
I remember having a conversation a few months ago with you and Wendy and Meggs and maybe a few others, about what activites we do when we're stressed. Meggs said her parents always knew when she was stressed cause she's spend hours playing the piano. Try looking for an activity that helps you connect with God. Nothing that requiures running a 100-mile marathon, but just something that relaxes you, and helps you feel that part of you that can really connect with God - know what I mean? it could be singing, or praying, or colouring, or standing on your head. Anything that takes your mind off of your stress and lets you just 'feel'. Yeah, I think that describes it best. Just 'feel' - feel his presence, his Love. Just feel.
As for how far you've come. I've said before that you're inspiring, and this is another one of those 'inspiring moments'. Imagine what you could do if instead of building up a 'rest' defecit you kept rested - I'll bet you could give the apostle Paul a run for his money in terms of eternal 'greatness' :-) not that its a competition or anyting :P
It seems that alot of people are working through the concept of developing a "sustainable pace" right now. An excellent book on this subject is the new book by Mark Buchannan called 'The Rest of God'. Highly recommended by both myself and Rob Bell!
Jay
i miss my piano! *tears*
who cares what time it is, LA needs her rest! *lol* oh man.
I think LA actually needs to set the time on her blog.
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