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Rest has been hard to come by for me lately. I thought it was mostly because of over scheduling things, but I’ve realized it’s more that I have been lacking “soul rest,” time to breath, time to have space to just be. Time to remember that the Lord is in control, and I’m not. That he is God, and I’m not.

This past weekend I felt interrupted by rest. Plans were canceled, the false peace of my self sufficiency was snatched away from me like the fleeting stability that it is.

As much as I’ve been eager to have rest, real true rest from my pride and from my idea of independence is disorienting. Disorienting in the best, most peaceful type of way. Disorienting because the fog has lifted and I can return to the hope of Jesus as my peace.

For Valentine’s Day, Shadi and talked about 1 Corinthians 13 at a coffee shop, and it talked about love. We are nothing, if we don’t have love. But not a romantic chocolate and flowers type of love. A love that is patient, a love that is kind; a love that hopes and endures and bears burden.

A type of love that brings true rest, true peace.

In a world of chasing and clocking in and getting the next dollar and getting more followers on Instagram, I forget that none of those things provide actual “soul rest.”

Only Jesus, only Jesus.

May I continually be interrupted in my own way of doing life by that.

“Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.”

– Sir Francis Drake, 1577

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