The Rest That We Need

 

I read this morning with the curtains open and facing a newly mown field, early morning shadows laid across the rows as if to hold them gently in place.

 

Psalm 23- “You make me lie down in green pastures…”

 

Acceptance of our humanity, of the rest that we need from time to time.

The back of my neck still aches and all down my spine, my stomach reminds me it’s still not ready for a full meal, and I’m tired.

There’s pay cuts, plans on hold, a working husband who is still taking care of the dying but without a solid night’s sleep since his block of shifts started, chores to catch up on, and you know how it goes.

Sometimes the sheperd makes me lie down in pastures this green.

He says to leave the productivity to him for a while. All the plans and the cares and the Earth-shaking that there is to do-

 

Lie down in the pastures and be restored, for just a little while.

 

Things will pick up again soon and we’ll be back on the move like I love to be.

The thing about tall grass is that when you lay down in it, you can’t see around you, anything but green.

 

All you can see is up.

 

Have you noticed that?

Sometimes need someone to make us lie down, look up, and wonder in the infinite simplicity of the One who holds the sky and everything beneath it, in his ever watchful care.

I hope you get the chance to rest today:)