Matthew 11:28-30 "Come to me, all you who are weary and
burdened, and I will give you rest. 29
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls. 30
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
Have you ever gone through a season in your life where you
wonder, “Will I ever feel rested again?”
Life keeps pulling at you from every direction. Your “to do” list is never complete, but it
seems for every task you finish, two more items are added. You are probably more stressed than you
realize, trying not to worry about things like money and how the bills are
going to be paid, how will relationships be mended, or how will an on-going
problem be solved. Trying to get through
each day, you find yourself pushing through, wondering when this season will
transition to the next…it has to get better, right?
If you’re like me and find yourself in this kind of season
of life, maybe the gentlest thing you can do on Sunday, December 20, is to be
gentle to yourself. My plan for
Sunday? I am going to sleep in and stay
home all day. I am going to stay in my
jammies as long as I like, drink more than one cup of coffee (that’s usually
all I have time for), watch a couple of Hallmark Christmas Movies, and just
take the day off. It will be hard not to
pick up a school book and read or sit down at the computer to finish some
pending assignment, but if I give in to the temptation, it will be because I
want to, not because I have to.
So as you are planning for Sunday, maybe you too should
block off some time to be gentle to yourself and just “be” for a while – after all,
God created human “be”-ings, not human “do”-ings!
Blessings,
Pastor Amy
Pastor Amy
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