it does a body good.
January 30, 2007not milk. rest. rest: it does a body good.
it should be on billboards everywhere.
my dear little friend, Charly, was just reminding me of this. rest. Even God rested. So who are we to think that we don’t need rest.
But that’s not it is it - we all know we need rest. we just don’t rest.
why is it so hard for us to rest?
I’ve really been thinking about this recently - cause you see I remembe this whole needing to rest bit when I’m sick. Because when I’m sick my body makes me rest, literally. So incidentally I did a lot of resting last week. Granted this week, ironically life had carry on and work had to get done, so resting and getting well has taken the back seat again.
And I’m not the only one, who’s like this. Why are so we thick (as Grandma would say). Why do just not get this resting business.
I can’t help but wonder that if I would actually remember to rest when I wasn’t sick, maybe I wouldn’t be sick in the first place.
I had a similar experience back at the beginning of the month. I was laid up for almost a week with the worst flu I think I’ve ever experienced – I don’t think I’ve ever been that sick, and I’ve lived in Africa.
But what I found was that I actually began to rest, not just physically, but also mentally I began to just let things go. All that is to say being sick has it’s advantages.
rest in peace.