Monday Memo

"We long for a blessed rest that reaches into our marrow and beyond." - Laura Thomas

Ah yes... New Years...

Ther is truly nothing like a fresh beginning, a fresh year- one full of hope and promise.

No matter where you sit with goals, resolutions and the like, a new year demands at least a glance into potential change. The feeling is palpable, like it or not, the world around us is shifting with every rotation.

One shift we made in our home years ago was the carving out of time to rest. We call it Sabbath. But we don't do it in the traditional sense, as some might be incline to know it.

In a fast pace world of hustle and bustle, now matter the season, it came to our attention that rest was needed. After years of dealing with severe adrenal fatigue, investing time on healing said fatigue, I wanted to implement something that would cause that healing to stick. Being militant about my rest day, my Sabbath, even through the loss of my husband, I have not slipped back into that bone crushing fatigue I dealt with for so long. A funny thing happens when you learn to say, "No."

Perhaps adrenal health isn’t on your radar as a need to attend to.

But friend, I can assure you that looking into ways to rest are indeed a need nearly everyone I know has.

Rest is an active practice, not a passive one.

Rest is not merely napping, or putting your feet up, though that is certainly a portion.

True rest is a settled sort of peace, an inner knowing that your mind is at ease, your body is moving slower, at least for a day, and your soul is quieted. True rest is giving your body the much needed space to restore to its proper alignment with our God- whatever that looks like in your life.

On this Monday memo that is also finding us at the beginning of a new year, I invite you to consider, rest.

Above all the goals hopes and dreams that are in your mind, I pray you choose rest to be the number one priority this year.