Rest

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Letter 4400

The tasks of this day are not especially taxing. Cleaning, arranging, light repairs. Yet before this easy day I shy.

Now is when I pull inward and rest, even as my energy flows like sap. The light worry is enough to make me sit.

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Lord, enter my heart and rebestir me. Let this rest renew my courage to walk and act.

Consider:

Can I seek and accept rest?

Reading:

❖ “To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

❖ “We are so afraid of silence that we chase ourselves from one event to the next in order not to have to spend a moment alone with ourselves, in order not to have to look at ourselves in the mirror.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

❖ “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28 (KJV)

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~B.R.

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