For those of you who have known us over the years, you might have trouble recognizing us in our present "condition". As I have been blogging for the past six weeks, we left Arkansas, returned to Colorado for about a week, and then headed off to Texas to relax with friends and try to rest from our hectic pace of the past ministry years. We thought we would be here for a month or so, but it has been extended and looks like it will be extended even further to the beginning of March.
Our frantic pace at the Passion Play and Source of Light has been replaced with a far slower and less hectic pace, which can be described as either "slow or stop". The other day I was wondering if we are resting to the point of rusting. We do get out of Colmesneil a few times a week, driving to Woodville, Lufkin or Beaumont, but we mostly go there to shop, eat, return home, watch a movie with Loren and Diane, talk for a while, play with Cream (the cat), walk Gus(the dog), check the national news headlines, do some word or number puzzles, sleep, get up and rest some more. We are exhausted from this new life style, wondering if we will be "in shape" for the Passion Play pace when we return to Arkansas in March.
We have gone through a cold snap the past week, with above freezing weather expected the next week or so. Maybe we will get a little more active, have a chance to do some outdoor projects and break out of this state of hibernation we find ourselves in. Yes, rest is important; God did rest from His hectic six days of Creation and He does command us to rest from our labors, too. But, I think we've taken this rest thing too far.
We need a rest from our rest.
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