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This was from a favorite blog called "Stuff Christians Like". I love the scripture and keep finding myself saying it to me. I do have trouble being quiet and resting.......

Sundays
I'm not very good at being still. I'm afraid that if I rest, I will miss something. While I am sitting still, some amazing opportunity will pass me by or something cool will transpire that I will miss out on. So instead of resting, I run, run, run, write, write, write, sweat, sweat, sweat. Constantly afraid that the next big thing is around the corner and I need to be ready for it.

But recently, I've felt the push to pause. A week ago, my counselor quoted someone's definition of rest as "the chance for your soul to catch up with your body." And I also remembered one of my favorite Bible verses, Isaiah 30:15:

This is what the Sovereign LORD, the Holy One of Israel, says:
"In repentance and rest is your salvation,
in quietness and trust is your strength,
but you would have none of it."

I don't want to be a "none of it" kind of guy. I want to be an "all of it" kind of guy and I hope that I can grow into that someday. But for now, the very least I can be is a "some of it" kind of guy and that means taking Sundays off.

I'm not going to be legalistic about it or argue about which day is the official Sabbath. I don't think God gave us the gift of rest so we'd have one more thing to fail at. I might pop in every now and then on a Sunday and won't beat myself up about it. But for the most part, I'm not going to post new stuff on Sundays anymore. I'm going to try to rest and not be worried about what I might miss but instead be happy about what I already have.

Expect the fantasticalness to start back up on Monday morning.

Side hugs and leg drops

Jon

p.s. Did you know that "fantasticalness" is an actual word? I had to look it up in the dictionary when my spellchecker didn't call it out. Whoa, how about that.