Rest

God rested after He worked.

There’s no way we cannot rest.

Rest is needed for healing, restoration, recuperation and revival. A whole lot of things at work become productive after that time of rest when we approach work again. Some things will have been forgotten. Some other things resurge fresher than ever. Some things find resolution. Some things self-resolve. Working continuously without rest and forcing one’s self to work thus can sometimes be counter-productive and eventually fatal.

Rest needs to be total, wholesome and complete. And work no less – total, wholesome and complete. Doing either half-heartedly, we could end up being causal while we work and being busy while we rest.

The body needs rest, the mind needs rest, the heart needs rest, and the psyche needs rest… The soul rests at death, but even otherwise, the soul benefits from all else forming the whole of us observing that God/ nature prescribed time of rest.

Rest is not necessarily sleep, although sound sleep is rest. Rest is certainly inaction, it is being utmost passive, alternatively earnest and active about being passive. Where most people rest with God in prayer, doing things with God, or doing things for God; as long as the person is still ‘doing’ something, it is not rest. Similarly, play or a break from work doing fun things/ taking a vacation is still not rest, if the person does not actually rest.

If you’ve been through surgery, you will remember a period post-surgery when you were forced to rest and when you actually rested. That was rest. God/ nature sometimes forces such rest on us through a system shutdown/ collapse, a system overworked, a system subjected to abuse through the deprivation of rest.

The ratio is one unit of time of rest for every six units of time worked.

Now think about your rest and the rest will follow. Needless to say, one should not feel guilty about taking this rest. The world will carry on albeit. You just wake up so much the better after that much required rest.

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a love greater than love

a love that covets not, has no intention to possess, gives, gives freely and without expectation, without end… a love that overlooks flaws, overlooks hurt, betrayal and denial… a love so secure, it knows no jealousy, a love that delights in the other’s prosperity even beyond one’s own, a love that is not angered, provokes no word or action one will regret, a love that knows no regret, that seeks not to harm or destroy, stir strife or ill will even in the name of love, a love that survives distance, boundaries, laws and even covenanted relationships, yet respects them all, a love that grows stronger through sickness, persecution, success and failure, that defies nature and challenges truth, that can’t be defined or covenanted even, but will last forever, a love that will not think twice to lay one’s life down for the beloved…

is how i’m loved…

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forbidden…

forbidden and so sought. forbidden and so thought of. forbidden and so fought for. forbidden and can’t be bought.
forbidden, yes… more importantly sought, thought of, fought for and can’t be bought…

if you want a child to do something, forbid him from doing it and it will be done. if you want a teenager to stick to a rule, tell him the opposite’s the rule and he will ensure it done. if you want a fully grown adult not to do something, tell him the contrary’s not allowed and you will succeed in your mission. why is it in human nature to trespass?

governments and authorities have their enforcements. religious orders their dictums. nations have their borders, so also human settlements of all sorts, families, even individuals are within boundaries of some sort or the other. in varying contexts much is given through endowment or entitlement or is simply ordained. much more however is not. that which cannot find entry even in our vaguest dreams. it’s called the forbidden.

what for? life and nature have their discipline, whether encoded or not, the violation of which affects the balance of both. the planet needs land and sea, earth and sky, to maintain their confines. it is menace when either’s on the edge of a verge. the paradigm applies universally and to all. for none is exempt from belonging to some place, someone, at least some thing… and in the bigger picture of harmony, the smallest intrusion can make the most fatal breach, some of which can never be restored to what was before…

seek not, think not of, fight not for and don’t waste nothing trying to buy – the forbidden. it belongs… not to you.

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