Rest

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock

²⁸Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]
²⁹Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.
³⁰For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good--not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.  Matthew 11:28-30, Amplified version

A day of rest, in Him ... yes. 

Be Gentle

No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.  ~ Jeanne de Chantal

Now that really is great advice, isn't it? 
I read the quote a few days ago in Common Prayer, A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, and knew it was perfect for today's post. 

So often when we mess things up for what seems like the thousandth time, we are anything but gentle with ourselves.  And honestly, what does the worrying, grumbling, and chastising yourself for the latest mess do but make you, and probably everyone else around you, feel worse? 

Let's take this quote to heart and instead be gentle with ourselves ... His grace is sufficient for whatever the latest disaster might be! 

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