Knowing when to rest shows your strength, wisdom, courage, and commitment.
It is NOT weakness. It is NOT a cop-out. It is NOT lazy. It is NOT a failure. It is NOT unproductive. It is NOT useless. It is NOT selfish.
We can get so easily trapped in these lies, stopping us from taking the real rest we need.
Real rest to 👏🏻 refill after pouring out so much, or get 👏🏻 healing and restoration after a long battle (emotional, relational, mental, physical, spiritual, heart/soul... all need recovery), or 👏🏻 reset after finding ourselves somewhere we never meant to be, or 👏🏻 refreshed after a big month, week, day, hour, moment.
We all need rest.
Let’s not listen to those very real feeling lies.
Rest can be the best thing for us, those around us, our mission, and our future.
👉🏻 So lovely brave one, are you feeling weary? Come and rest. Make it a priority.
HANDY HINT: Write down what refills you / what energizes you / what you love doing / what refreshes you / what gives you rest in all these areas:
- physical
- mental
- emotional
- spiritually
So when you go to rest, you have preloaded things ready to go that will help you rest.
I don’t know about you, but when I’m so weary, I don’t often have energy to choose what would really help me. So having a list ready to go, help us have a deeper, more effective rest.
👉🏻 What rest can you take today? Even just a quick refill stop? We all need to refill our tanks.
💜Ruth x
📸 Amazing reminder by the wonderful @morganharpernichols
Knowing When to Rest
