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Finding Rest in a Busy Day

My favorite way to get rest is to curl up in my 🛋recliner with a ☕️homemade caramel macchiato , my 🐶 yorkie and a good devotional or the 📖Bible. To me, hot ☕️coffee means I have to sit down and take about 20-30 minutes to enjoy. It’s a forced rest time for me that I desperately need every single day. Part of my unwinding includes reading God’s word. His word lights my path and gives me the wisdom and hope I need. 
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Mark 6:31-32 says, “Then Jesus said, “Let’s go off by ourselves to a quiet place and 🛏rest awhile.” He said this because there were so many 😝people coming and going that Jesus and his apostles didn’t even have time to 🥖eat. So they left by 🛶boat for a quiet place, where they could be alone.”
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Following Jesus’ example and resting in a 🤫quiet place just makes sense. How do you prefer to find rest?
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At 💒church, my hubby called a time for 😴restoration through 🙏🏼prayer. Taking the time to shut down the 🧠thoughts and outside 🌎world was so very 💦refreshing. 
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We all seem to work so 👨‍🏫hard👨🏻‍💻 that even our rest ends up being work. We 🚿clean the whole house, 🌱mow the yard or get caught up on past due 🚗errands on our days of rest. Then, we wonder why we’re 😵tired all the time. 
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If you feel this way, take a moment to 🛑shut🛑 it all out and ask God to 🌈restore🌈 you. You’ll find that a little rest will go a long way towards your overall 📤productivity🗄.

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