I'm sharing a blog post from back in 2013. It was one of the early devotion posts shortly after I began blogging. I come back to it today because I have been through a season of intense stress. Not my own but others who I seek to support now that life has settled down at home. Our two oldest are married and have their own household. Our son is in community college. He lives at home and there is still parenting to be done but not with the same intensity as when he was younger. In the last few weeks there have been several unexpected deaths in our lives. There has been a lot of tragedy and difficult situations in the lives of many that are close to our family. It's been an incredibly emotional month. Yesterday, I WAS DONE! I just had to get some rest so that's what I am doing this weekend. I am taking the weekend off from the things I often do. Sometimes a person just needs to rest. With this said, I want to share how I came to this same conclusion one year when advocating for my son had taken it's toll in my life.
I looked over some notes I made several years ago and came across a scripture and my personal reflections on it. The scripture was quite short in length but it was packed with a lot of emotion and experiences. Let me share it. Joshua 21:43. "And the Lord gave them rest on every side."
Let me give you the backdrop of what was going on in our lives. It was May of my son's second grade year. He had been formally diagnosed in February that year. At school, he had between 10-20 meltdowns a day (some small, some not so small). I was exhausted trying to help make school work for him. He didn't get much done at school so I basically homeschooled him after school. I was really tired of the whole thing.
I didn't think I could face another day of school at the end of that year. Though this verse, referred to the Israelites going into the promise land and having a time of not fighting any battles with other lands. I wanted the kind of rest God promised the Isaraelites in this verse. I asked God for a respite from school for the summer. I felt like I needed to rest so I would be able to "go for it " when school started in August.
Sometimes, a little rest from the "dailies" does a great deal of good.
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