Deciding how to keep sharing my heart on this, how to be transparent without sounding like a know-it-all, how to be bravely vulnerable without simplifying a very complex healing process, has been hard. It’s wayyyy easier for me to just show photos of pretty flowers we grow at Triple Wren and hide behind them!! Before I posted the last blog, I’d written out my story and was ready to post it all, but I am also praying fiercely through the process for God to help me share what He wants me to, and my heart was simply not at peace until today to post about how essential REST was and continues to be for my health. 

Perhaps it’s pride, perhaps it’s my driven, achieving personality, but I. Love. To. Work. If I’m not careful, I can LIVE to work. And…. I honestly don’t love to play very much. When you’re starting a business from scratch, especially one that challenges your mind AND body like farming does, there’s plenty of work to satisfy that drive, and then some.

The struggle-curse Adam was given in the fall is still alive and well, friends! It’s the epic challenge of cultivating the earth knowing you never actually can completely subdue its wildness, only hoping to tame it for a bit and turn its power towards producing beauty and order that captures my attention. It’s the most exhilarating and satisfying challenge I’ve ever faced, and our farming adventure has been FUN and FABULOUS. 

But… it also almost killed me. I was addicted to the work, ignoring the rest-times that are essential for a thriving life. 

I have so much to say about this, and every day this coming week I intend to share here one aspect of what I am still learning about rest. It needs to be intentional, complete/wholehearted, fun, “layered,” significant. 

But first let me ask: Are you addicted to your work, loving it too much? Or are you work-weary, hungry for a way out but feeling stuck in your enterprises? 
How do YOU rest? 

I have specific application to share in the coming days, but let me leave you today with this exquisite truth. Jesus says in Matthew 11, (and this is no over-simplification, dear friends) “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”