One thing I seek on my Advent retreat is rest. I'm fortunate in this time of my life to be able to get all the sleep I need. I have few needs of an alarm clock. So the rest I seek here in the high country is of "soul" nature. I'm seeking rest from deadlines - yes, deadlines - and from burdens of things heavy in my heart.
Eighteen degrees here this morning, with a brilliant blue New Mexico sky.
I'm reading Barbara Craftan's "Let Every Heart Prepare" meditations for Advent. Today she spoke about rest in terms of physical sleep. She says: " If Christ were to come now, to throw back the covers of my life, cuddled down in the comfortable predictability of its days, exposing me to the bracing air of a new day, it would be hard to respond gracefully at first. Not now. I’m sleep-deprived. But the sleep of the night is only for the sake of the day. God gives us the rest we need, and we need to take it. And then God astounds us with something new, and we awaken to it, refreshed."
I believe that God will provide the soul-rest I am seeking this day.
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