How To Find the Rest Your Heart Is Longing For
Rest so deep and full that only God can meet me there. No—that only God does meet me there.
Rest so deep and full that only God can meet me there. No—that only God does meet me there.
However you define silence or stillness for yourself, I hope you come to know it, understand it, and above all, practice being it: Stop fighting. Calm down. Be quiet. Be calm. See. Understand. Desist.
To overcome addiction is to slow down enough to notice: Why am I reaching for this? What am I trying not to feel?
Are you truly self-aware, or just self-critical? Because God doesn’t just call us to notice what’s broken—He invites us to see what’s beautiful, sacred, and already whole. Awareness isn’t just good—it’s God.
The meetings weren’t wasting my time—I was. I had been squandering the opportunity to love, to connect, to lead.
Love– My love is patient, kind. It always protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres. Love never fails. So don’t fail him—or Me! Cast your cares onto Me, so when you are with him, you can be who he needs you to be. Not you—but Me in you!
How many times in our life do we set an expectation and then, within moments—within breaths—forget that we said we were going to do something different? That we were going to do something that would require something different of us?
Why worry when I can pray? Why worry when I can safely forget because You—the God who knows, hears, and sees ALL—will and does remember?! Thank You, God, for this freedom. For this liberation. For this knowing. For this understanding.
And if we don’t heal the root, we’ll just keep switching up the fruit. Until we deal with the why, we’ll just keep changing the what.
To me (and in my humble opinion it should be for er’body!), all of humanity is normal. After all, whoever God created in His image is ‘fearfully and wonderfully made,’ so who are we to decide who’s abnormal?! THE AUDACITY! When we say ‘___ is not normal,’ what we’re really saying is ‘___ is different than me,’ and that difference makes them abnormal. Ah who say so?!”