We say we need rest. And yet, when we finally stop, many of us almost immediately reach for something else to do. We check the phone. We think about the email we forgot to answer. We notice the task waiting in the other room. We lie down at night and, rather than resting, begin mentally … Continue reading Inhabiting Rest
Most of us don’t reject rest outright. We postpone it. We tell ourselves we’ll rest after one more thing is done—after the list gets shorter, after life slows down, after we’ve earned it. Rest becomes conditional, something we imagine waiting patiently on the other side of our productivity. And yet, that “other side” never quite arrives. Busyness … Continue reading When You’re Too Busy to Rest
