In this issue:
Do you ever feel as if you're always running and never have time to rest? When was the last time you took a day to refresh? I'll use my own struggle as exhibit A for why a sabbath is important, and I'll share some resources with ideas for how to give yourself a break.
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Inspired Life: You Can't Do it All I need to make a confession. I can't do all the things. You can't either. And if, like me, you have tried, you might have realized that it's a recipe for implosion. I get snappy and weepy when I'm overwhelmed. And I get confused about which step I should take next. My first solution is often to cut out rest - so I go to bed later and work on weekends. I schedule things for Sundays that would usually fall on a different day. Or I pack the weekends and evenings so full that I don't feel the least bit rested. I haven't been good to myself lately, and I knew it was time to make a new commitment to making sure I don't burn out. When my husband and I had a come-to-Jesus meeting recently, the focus of our chat was about how we had no margin, about how I was stressed, and how we needed to make a change. I love my work, so it sounds weird to talk about it as being stressful, but even really good things can be stressful! Even the best things! If you've ever been overcommitted you know how that goes. If you have ever had a lot of yesses that led to a lot of regrets, you understand. You might be the super volunteer that everyone turns to. But that can be too much too. Too many lunch meetings and your productivity disappears - someone has to work, right? Too much chocolate and new belly rolls appear. Too much of anything can be good or bad, depending on what other important things it bumps out of our life. My problem is that I had started to let my work spill over into Saturdays and then into Sundays. I'm a writer, but I also have clients and have an editing and book design business that I run. Balancing my own creative work and the work I do for clients, along with the volunteering I do at church is a little bit of a science. And the whole thing was a science experiment about to blow up. Below I will tell more of the ideas I discovered and the commitment my husband and I have made to sabbath rest. When I was a child, sabbath meant taking naps and not doing certain recreational things on Sundays. But as an adult, I have developed a different, and less legalistic view of a sabbath. It might be active, or it might be rest. It might be spiritual, or it might be recreational. But it is something restorative.
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