dailydatewithgod

We breathe in.  We breathe out.  There is day and then night, darkness and then light.  There is winter and then spring.  Nature, including our bodies, has within its design an active and a rest cycle.  Both are needed.  Our world spends most of the time focusing on the active part.  We get things done. We achieve goals.  We go out and make things and make things happen.  We are productive and therefore successful.  Yet catch anyone who did not get enough sleep and they can speak of how less productive they are able to be that day.  Rest is a necessary part of living.  We cannot simply keep going and being active.  Wrestling with the concept of rest has come to the forefront many times on my spiritual path.  I am so used to thinking of myself as a human doing that I easily forget I am a human being.  If I neglect to slow down once in a while I become robotic in nature and lack flexibility in mind, body, and spirit.  I suppose is part of the human struggle between the heart and the head.  Finding a place and space of rest for one’s mind is what allows for clarity and space to hear the messages of our heart and soul.  Rest is not always sleeping, it is the pausing, it is the letting go, it is the enjoyment, it is the relishing of life.  Just the other day, I was sitting outside eating lunch.  When I finished I continued to just sit there and enjoy the feeling of being outside before I rushed off to my next thing.  In that moment I saw a family pass by and share a special moment of recognition of the two mothers who were visiting as they were adorned with flowers.  It was so simple and yet so profound.  I notice a lot of these simple exchanges these days between people when I take the time to rest and be in the in between.  My daily prayer and meditation dates with God have taught me the power of resting in the moment, being present with myself and all that is happening in that moment.