The last couple of days, I have had conversations with women who are just plain tired. They are so busy…taking care of their families, doing ministry, working, trying to make time for friends. They feel overwhelmed, stressed and sometimes, even ill.
This is not the way it was meant to be. God didn’t design us to ‘just keep going” like the Energizer bunny. He means for us to rest, to slow down, so we can listen to Him.
Often we confuse ‘doing’ with ‘being’. All the things we are busy doing are good things. It’s just too much. We don’t have any energy left for truly being present to God. Spending time with Him seems like just one more thing to do.
As women, we (and I include myself in this) need to purposely slow down. We need to allow our ‘doing’ to emerge from our ‘being’. What do we hear God saying to us? What does he want us to be involved in? What does He want us to say no to?
Take some time today….yes… take some time …to spend with God and just ‘be’. Know that the world won’t fall off its axis if you slow down. Try it…sit down, close your eyes and offer up five minutes to God.
Breathe s l o w l y and r e s t.
Peacefully,
Deb
Friday, July 20, 2007
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Posted by deb at 12:10 AM
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I had to laugh as I read this because I feel it has described my past few weeks and I know better. I am much more productive for God if I take the time to rest and be with God. Tomorrow, resting in God is on my schedule for a few hours and I am so excited for that time to come. I was very hard for me to learn how to just be, to not have things to do, to just sit and talk to God and to listen to him speak. Now I can't live without it! This whole week I have felt my soul draining but knowing the recharge is coming so I can hang on. Thanks for the reminder.
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