Busyness

I used to be in a choir in New Zealand. Looking back, those were some of the best years I've had. We got to travel internationally with friends, just by doing what we loved. One little thing I remember the choir conductor saying one day that was pretty cool and I've kept with me is- "there is always a time for silence in music".

In every piece of music, there is a pause. There are rests. Whether its for a crotchet beat, or a semibreve, or a quaver. And it adds to the music. In fact she put it this way- rests are "musical notes of silence". In a song for example, if there are no rests, everything would just run into each other. There would be no proper phrasing or shape, and it would be very bland. There are a proper places for rests, and they are intentional.

Being productive is good. And I'm all for that. But it's good to stop and take rests. God didn't need to take the day of rest on the Sabbath. He's GOD. He doesn't need to rest. But it was intentional. It was a principle that he laid out for us to follow.

So I guess the goal is to apply it to my life, and hopefully this may speak to you as well. Rest is intentional. We all need it. It's a fast-paced world we live in. And we all want things to have been done yesterday. But life will soon get tough pretty fast if we don't learn to slow down. Take a breather. Rest.