Rest

Ahh...it's been so long since I've blogged. Slacking may be a good way of putting it, but I actually read this inspirational poem about writing when you had the inspiration to versus writing when you had no inspiration and forcing it. I haven't been inspired to write until the last few days. And so of course you have to let that inspiration cycle around in your head as you mull over it and chew it and think on it and then finally you are ready to write. At least that's how it works for me. =]

So I wanna talk about rest. Rest. Hmm...I've always loved resting. Ya know, Sunday after church propping your feet up on the foot stool, and just resting. Or after a long day at work, curling up on the couch with a good book and resting...or taking a bath and relaxing. Yep. I do like to rest. I think I was born to rest. Haha.

Lately however, God has been taking me on a new phase of rest. Resting in Him. Not just resting. But resting IN Him. And there is a huge difference between the two. My definition or version of rest is all I've wrote above. But resting in God, is something deeper, it's rest in your spirit, your mind. I mean seriously can you tell me that after a day of hardwork you go home and feel relaxed just sitting there? Often times I picture resting in front of the TV...cause then you're mind is turned off and you are just zoned into the TV, unless you are that stressed. But when you rest in God, it's like this whole new element. You can rest on the couch and not have the TV on as you just chill out there, resting in God.

The past month or so, my nights have taken an interesting turn of events, either they are full of bad dreams, OR it takes me forever to sleep and then I have bad dreams. A few nights ago, I was so close to getting up and doing something but I wanted to sleep because I knew I had to get up early the next morning, so I'd lay there and try, but my thoughts were so full and going all over the place and finally I came to a point where I was just like "God, help me!" And He said to me, "Rest My child, rest in Me." And so I laid there and just stopped thinking, I pictured myself curled up on His lap, and just rested in Him. Rested in His love, rested in knowing who He is in my life.

And that my friends, is what I do believe true rest is. Resting in His love. Even when life is chaotic, even when you can't sleep, remembering that you can just lay back and relax and rest in His love, because He won't ever stop loving us!!! It's so beautiful really!! =)