Insights from Return to Your Rest: A Spirit-to-spirit Journey

Sun is rising above gray clouds, creating a white-yellow sky and bringing light to a misty valley between dark, forested mountains.

I shall not want: Resting in God’s provision

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want,” sang David, the poet-king. Or in other words, “I lack nothing.” “The Lord hasn’t given us enough!” cried Joseph’s clan. We may know and love David’s words. Yet at times, it may seem that we lack a LOT. So what do we do with that?

A man stands on a a rock ledge, looking out across a sea of clouds. Black, blue and gray arrows drawn onto the photo point in all different directions

The enemies of rest

I’ve updated Return to Your Rest, and included a chapter about enemies of rest I have faced. May God give us courage to rise up in the face of all that fights against it - and to return to rest.

Clusters of purple wine grapes, resting in the vine
courtesy Pavel Jedlicka

Live from a place of rest

Mini-post: Thought-provoking quote from Return to Your Rest. It begins, "Our Lord sees how very confused we are about rest ..."

Time out on a mountaintop in the Colorado Rockies

Time out

In God’s economy, Time Out isn’t a punishment. It’s a blessing and a gift. Regularly, intentionally, you punctuate periods of purposeful labor with real rest.