5. Take Time to Rest and Enjoy God’s Creation
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Due to always being busy with tasks, our job, and our family life, as Christian women, we do not have much time for rest. For many of us, we start feeling guilty even just thinking about resting. Rest is important for us and can restore our energy levels as well as our hearts. If we are constantly in a fight or flight mode, we will never have true inner calmness. Instead, we will be rushing from one task to the next.
In order to find inner calm, we have to utilize the strategy of taking time to rest and enjoying God’s creation. Taking time to rest looks like doing something that helps us unwind. This looks different for everyone and can vary from a self-care day to getting some exercise in. Everyone’s form of rest is unique to them. Try to find how your body and mind rests, and start including it into your everyday life.
Resting is not being lazy. Although many of us are taught this from a young age, there is nothing wrong with resting. Resting is very productive and can help us recharge from the events of the day. We never need to feel bad or guilty over taking time to rest. We are humans—not robots.
In conjunction with resting, we can take time to enjoy God’s beautiful creation. Maybe taking time to rest for you means going on a hike or a walk around the block. Either of these things can help you ponder God’s amazing creation. Reflecting on the beautiful blue skies, the green trees, and colorful flowers can help us experience inner calm. Due to being surrounded by God’s beautiful creation, we will be amazed at how much it calms us.
Even sitting on our back porches in summer has a way of bringing us inner calm. The gentle breeze of the summer wind, the twinkling of lightning bugs, and the song of the crickets can bring our hearts inner peace. None of these wonderful things would be present apart from God’s creation. Take time today to rest and enjoy God’s beautiful creation in your own life and experience inner calmness.
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