Contagion

The summer is an awesome time to decompress. We kill ourselves working day in and day out with hardly any room for rest. Even on our days off we're busy doing something. Taking the kids to a game. Fixing the house. Doing yard work. And we rarely take the time to just rest. We live in a crazy society that tells you that if you are not doing something, you are lazy and won't make it anywhere. So we fill our time. It gives us accomplishment. It gives us a sense that we are proving ourselves to the world that we are someone. We maybe even do this with God.

I know that most of us have to keep on working through the summer but what if we planned it so that our day off could be exactly that...a day off. If it's Saturday, go out to the lake. Make sure all the extra work is done and just relax. Just be.

Sometimes I think we can miss the fact that God loves us because we are his kids. Not because of what we do or how busy we are. It's possible to just "be" and have God still love us. In religious terms this is called the Sabbath. Bring it back into your life.

Stop.

Rest.

Live.

Be.