The Rest that God Gives

The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler · Sep 4, 2018 · 6m

We’ve all felt the exhaustion, the overwhelming sense of vague failure or defeat, the frustration of feeling like our goals are impossible. Maybe some women out there can manage, but we aren’t and cannot be.

We need rest. We know we need rest. But we aren’t sure how.

The only kind of rest we can even think of is a “turn it all off” sort of rest. Go away. Escape. Shut down. Stop the madness.

And that’s pretty much impossible.

So, rest must simply be unachievable for us. Let’s just give up with a novel on the couch or with chocolate and a tv show: a second-best sort of escape.

Real rest…