Rest

   Exodus 20:8-11

Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.

Rest

Says the Lord

Rest

Rest from working

And planning

Rest from fretting

And worrying

Rest from rushing

And hurrying

Rest

Make space

And do not fill the space

with thinking and planning

with reviewing and taking stock

Rest

Much more difficult than it sounds

Rest 

Space that isn't filled

Rest

One of the Ten Commandments 

Rest

Prayer

God teach us how to rest for we forget what it feels like to make space. 

God teach us how to rest for we fear what it feels like to make space.

God teach us how to rest so that there is room for you and for others.

God teach us how to rest.