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| Attainable rest |
| By Jenny Sawyer |
How can we feel rested? A quick survey of any of the dozens of articles on the web about how to sleep better indicates that many of us struggle to feel refreshed, alert, energetic – at least on a regular basis. But what if feeling rested wasn’t actually dependent on the pace of our lives, or on the number of hours of shut-eye we managed to achieve?
In the second chapter of Genesis, the Bible leads with an example of rest that flies in the face of all the human advice on the same subject. In the first chapter of Genesis, we get the story of the whole glorious creation, which God created spiritually to be wonderfully good. Chapter 2 concludes the creation story this way: “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made” (Genesis 2:1, 2).
I’ve come to love this vision of God resting... MORE |
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