Learning to Rest This Week

I have attempted to take a break this week from everything! My energy seems low, and want to be replenished! I have been able to read, relax, watch some NBA, spend time with zhe bf, and enjoy cooking. :) Here are some thoughts I read and needed to hear by Jen Wilkin:

We rest not as an attempt to earn His approval, but as an assent that his approval has already been earned in the sun-going-down, Sabbath-initiating work of Christ on the cross. Christ worked that we may rest. He, in a gathering dusk, exhaling the first note of a blood-bought chorus of infinite rest...He is thereby mercifully relieved of his idolatrous, exhaustion-breeding belief that the work of his hands upholds the universe in part or in whole...Love grows warm once again in the emptied spaces of rest. We remember our love for the One who sustains us, we recall our love for the ones who surround us. Worshipful rest renews our love for God and for others. It is the rest that restores our souls.