The result of a great weekend is waking up Monday morning refreshed and ready to go. Not just relaxed by replenished.
There is a pervasive misunderstanding about the idea of rest that leaves too many of us ill-equipped to engage Mondays with the kind of creative energy that's necessary to impact the world in the right way. We stop, take-a-load-off, unwind, "veg" (vegetate), and take it easy. And that's all good. But what we fail to do is to replenish, restore, reinvigorate, renovate, re-tool, renew, repair, reanimate, recover and redeem. We need refreshment sometimes more than we need rest.
Yes, I know, that's a lot of "r" words. But they're "r" words that all point to a critical aspect of personal and corporate faith that we too easily sidestep if we're not careful.
How many people, for example, stay away from church on a Sunday morning because they're "too tired", "over-extended" or "need a rest"? When the truth is that church is exactly the place to be when we are stressed, burned-out, weary or in turmoil.
Weekend rest doesn't go nearly far enough. But the replenishment I receive when I spend Sunday with my community of faith restores the source of my life. Creativity on a Monday morning isn't such a stretch in the context of such grace.
Peace - and restoration - DEREK
1 comment:
Glad you had a wonderful Father's Day. I did too. It was still tough to feel replenished at 6:00 this morning!
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