Rest
As I write this, my husband and I are away from home for the
weekend celebrating our anniversary. The past year has been an extremely
stressful year for us. A lot happened that was out of our control. The couple of
months leading up to our anniversary were even more stressful, and we felt
Satan attacking us in huge ways on a daily basis. Knowing it was Satan helped
ease our minds a little bit, but it didn't really help our hearts. We were
physically and mentally exhausted. We needed a time of rest. Beyond renting a
cabin, we made no plans. We needed a break. We needed to rest.
I asked friends to pray for this time away. You see, when my
husband and I go away, disaster seems to follow. I joking-not-joking asked a few
of my friends to pray – specifically for no falling trees, no car problems, no
one jumping/falling/being pushed off balconies, no police banging on her door
in the middle of the night, no major parental health issues that would make us
cut our trip short or put a damper on our time together, no hurricanes, and no
tornadoes. (Yes, these are all truly the things that happen when we go away!)
Apparently I didn't put enough specifics in my request my
friends. Not 30 minutes after asking them to pray I received a text that
threatened to ruin our time of rest together. After praying, my husband and I
decided to keep our plans. There was really nothing we could do, and we were
close enough to home in case we were needed.
Finding moments of rest is important. I have found that even
though I can't always escape life as I would like to do some days, I can still
find rest. I can find that rest in God. No matter the storms that are swirling
about me I can find shelter in His wings. As hard as the difficulties are that we've had to face, I know I can give each situation to God and let Him
take care of it for me. Most often the only thing I can do is pray. That's hard
for a doer and the fixer! I would often much rather be doing something to fix
the problem myself, but God wants me to find rest, peace, independence in Him;
after all, that's the only place where true rest is found
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