I write this sitting at home. The quiet is amazing even though we are babysitting a puppy. The smell of home cooked chicken pot pie wins my wife the Good Housekeeping seal of approval. I offered to help, but she said, “Just rest.” You might think four days with a nine-year-old isn’t restful, I was surprised to find it was. We didn’t take this picture on our trip. But it well describes “rest.”
The last few days were great but it is also great to be home. And it’s at home that the real work must be done. Nick like all my family has to be loved every day. The special times will always be special; but the best memories and the strongest foundations are built on unplanned and ordinary times. Love is truest in the ordinary times and the daily grinds in putting out the garbage, walking the dog and helping with the homework.
I hope I will be wise enough to continue to invest daily as I have the last few days. I know the rewards will be as important if not as instant and dramatic and restful.
One of the problems of plowing back into the daily loving is that is where stress lives. I read a great article today entitled I Stress, Therefore I Am: 10 Ways To De-Stress & Enjoy Rest. If your daily life of loving has you stressed and a vacation is not in your near future, you might want to give it a read. Perhaps a quote will tempt you to give it a read “As people of faith, our focus goes beyond avoiding stress. We pursue the opposite. We pursue rest.” Give the article a read and pursue some rest.
To rest is to bless.
I hope to read that on a bumper sticker real soon. I didn’t see it once on our four day trip. Didn’t see any bears either even the ones in the zoo were hiding.
Nick
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