Sunday, January 12, 2014
Sunday Reflection: Resting
Tomorrow is the first day of a new semester, and I have taken a little time off in the last month. Time off from writing, from speaking, from doing much of anything in public, and that has been good.
We all need a little fallow time; if we don't create it, it will create itself. I think that is what "burn-out" is, really-- the body and mind and soul claiming what you did not give it freely.
It's funny how this is one of the ancient commandments that Jesus preaches regularly-- to respect the Sabbath, the day of rest. So few of us do that (including me, very often), and it is literally counter-cultural to do so.
Tomorrow, though, the wheels start spinning again!
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This reflection mirrors the same thought I read this week from Howard Thurman...."There is a fallow time for the spirit when the soil is barren....Face it!" Then resolutely dig out dead roots, clear the ground....work out new designs by dreaming daring dreams and great creative planning. The time is not wasted. The time of fallowness is a time of rest and restoration, of filling up and replenishing. Thank God for the fallow time!"
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