{"id":1200,"date":"2019-11-07T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T09:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2019-10-22T09:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:23:18","slug":"thankful-for-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2019\/11\/07\/thankful-for-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"THANKFUL FOR REST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cFor everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.\u201d  1 Timothy 4:4-5 CSB<\/a>
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Today I\u2019m thankful for my new friend Carolyn who taught me about rest at our women\u2019s retreat.  In her talk, she explained how rest is to be restorative for us. But each of us are not restored in the same way.  I loved this point she made. Often times, I think we all think there is a formula for rest, but there isn\u2019t. I find rest when I spend time with my husband.  The day after the retreat, I found rest with him while watching the Lord of the Rings<\/a> trilogy.  I had never seen the movies before, he had been wanting a rainy Sunday to watch them again.  We did just that. After church, I made a big pot of chicken noodle soup and we settled in for an afternoon of Tolkien<\/a>.  We sat side by side.  We ate soup, we held hands.  We had a very restful day which restored both of us.  Others may find rest by working on a puzzle, or taking a nap.  Rest restores us, and we need it.
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As Carolyn said, rest is \u201cthe first thing we cut, but should be the first thing we prioritize.\u201d  She taught us how God incorporated rest into our lives by creating the Sabbath, a day where you cease to work.  We are commanded to have a day of rest in the 10 Commandments<\/a>.  Rest is a way we show faith.  When we are resting, we\u2019re showing God we trust Him to run the world, we don\u2019t have too.  Rest restores our soul (Psalm 23:2-3 ESV<\/a>).  Rest comes in many different forms for all of us, whatever restores us is rest.  Yet we don\u2019t rest because we don\u2019t think it is important. We have every intention of taking the day off, but then the kids have a ball game, your neighbor needs help or an unexpected project at work pops up.  When we don\u2019t make time to rest, we\u2019re playing into the devil\u2019s hands. He wants us worn out and tired, he doesn\u2019t have to work as hard at distracting us when we\u2019re out of energy. When we\u2019re depleted we don\u2019t make good decisions, our brains get tired too.
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Carolyn reminded me of the importance of rest.\u00a0 Why do we need it, why we don\u2019t get it, and what we need to do to get it.\u00a0 One of my favorite quotes comes from her husband, \u201cThe good is the enemy of the best.\u201d\u00a0 He is so right. We think we\u2019re doing good when we don\u2019t prioritize rest in our lives because we\u2019re doing something good.\u00a0 We\u2019re watching the ball game, helping the neighbor, doing the project. But in reality, the lack of rest is keeping us from doing our best.\u00a0 We aren\u2019t at our best if our heart isn\u2019t in what we\u2019re doing. If we\u2019re resentful to be at the ball game, irritated to help our neighbor, or stressed while doing the project, that\u2019s not our best.\u00a0 Good is the enemy of best.
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Today I\u2019m thankful for Carolyn.\u00a0 She taught me about rest. What are you thankful for?
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\u201cFor everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, since it is sanctified by the word of God and by prayer.\u201d  1 Timothy 4:4-5 CSB Today I\u2019m thankful for my new friend Carolyn who taught me about rest at our women\u2019s retreat.  In her talk,… Continue reading THANKFUL FOR REST<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}