Time To Go Deeper!

Rest

Rest is an elusive thing in my life.  Right now especially with a new baby and five other kids, homeschooling, writing, managing a home, etc. there is very little rest for me.  I sometimes fantasize about the rest I might get one day-- much later in life when my kids are grown and gone.  And then I wonder if I can keep the pace until then! 

The kids and I read about rest today in Matthew 11:28-30.  Jesus says "Come unto me and I will give you rest."  Ohhhh, come unto Jesus and find rest??  I thought I had to flop onto my bed or couch to find rest!  Turns out, I am looking in the wrong places.  Our devotion today said that God rested on the seventh day and He commanded the Israelites to rest on the seventh day as well. 

I wonder if the word used for rest in those instances is the same word Jesus used??  This would be a great time to have a Strong's or Vine's! 

Mainly, I just want the rest Jesus has to offer me.  I want to rest in Him.  I want to stop chasing after the wind, and turn my face towards Him.  The Bible I was using today had a note that said that Jesus' version of rest is love, healing and peace with God.  The yoke that he is referring to in these verses is sin, demands, oppression, persecution or weariness.  This Bible noted that Jesus does not offer to take the yoke away, but to share it-- so that the weight is falling on bigger shoulders than yours.  We are going through life with a great partner! 

This has comforted and encouraged me today.  I hope it does the same for someone else!

First Entry

This is my new blog, since I don't have enough to do in my life...  I am adding something! 

I had a friend over today who is a fellow writer and a deep thinker.  (Hi Mel! www.melsheart.blogspot.com) She encouraged me to write about some things I shared with her today.  We discussed how sometimes it just does not seem right to share certain things on our blogs, as we know that certain people read them. (ie, family members) As much as we don't want to censor ourselves, we do.  I told her that I had been thinking of starting a whole separate blog where I could go a bit deeper.  That was where the title of this blog came from!  As soon as she left, I went in and got online to get this thing going while it was on my mind!

I feel like my other blog is more about the daily-ness of life.  What I have been doing with homeschooling the kids, how my days go, what we have for dinner, how I make life work for me... but I don't get into the stuff I like to think about and hash over in that blog.  Strange that a blog can have a "personality" or a voice of its own, but that one does, or seems to to me.  And there is a place for that.  People like to read the daily stuff of life. 

But sometimes you just want more.  I want more.  I want to stretch my wings a bit and post things that I would not normally have a place to post.  I want to discuss deeper spiritual truths and what God is showing me.  I don't feel like I want my other blog to be that.  I like my other blog for what it is.  So, this is my alter-ego blog, I guess.  The part of me that is not all that funny, or light, or care-free. 

So, here it is, FWIW.  I hope you enjoy it and will visit often.  Please share with me what God is showing you as well.