We’re back in Boise! Thanks for your prayers - the time in Oregon was very significant. (More on that at a later time.) Ann has been reading an excellent book, The Passionate Life by Breen and Kallestad. The authors have developed a tool for reflecting on how to live a life completely committed to Christ that is in balance and harmony with who you are as a human being. Ann passed the book on to me and I wanted to share an important thought from it.

One of the main points I gained was that work is to rise out of rest, not the other way around. Usually, we work and work, then collapse from exhaustion into “rest”. But the Biblical pattern was the opposite: God made Adam and Eve and commissioned them to care for the world, then the “rest day” began as the first day of creation!

“This was our first full day as humans - a day of rest. After a busy day of being created, the next thing we did was hang out with God for a whole day. Then the work began. We only have to go to the first page of the story to see that. From this we see an important principle of life: We are to work from our rest, not rest from our work.” (p. 69)

I don’t know about you, but I’ve got some personal rewiring to do in light of that!