The Need for Rest

You Calm my fears
You hold me near
Draw me closer to you
I give my life to you

New Years, new beginnings, a time for peace and a time for rest. It always takes me by surprise how completely exhausted I am each year after Christmas. This year has been no different. In fact with the trip following Christmas I think I have been even more tired. Each evening I have been trying to stop and watch a movie, but find myself waking up middle of the night with a crook in my neck, the television sounding like a broken record as it restarts the beginning over and and over and freezing my bottom off. The moment I hit my pillow and stop it seems my body decides I need sleep. Rest, rest, rest has been the advice from one good friend to another. Lovely thought, just one that I have a hard time implementing. Four children for one thing, this keeps me on my toes. Their needs never ending, and me with a servants heart. This weekend I have had one crossing thought after another about projects I want to dive in and enjoy. But I think I will force myself to rest.

Rebecca St. James song is one that makes me always stop to reflect, stop to think, stop and Rest in Him.

How lovely is Your dwelling place
Oh, Lord Almighty
For my soul longs and even faints for You
For here my heart is satisfied
Within Your presence
I sing beneath the shadow of Your wings

Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere

One thing I ask and I would seek
To see Your beauty
To find You in the place Your glory dwells

Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere

My heart and flesh cry out
For You, the living God
Your Spirit's water to my soul
I've tasted and I've seen
Come once again to me
I will draw near to You
I will draw near to You

Better is one day in Your courts
Better is one day in Your house
Better is one day in Your courts
Than thousands elsewhere