Today we had to wake up at 6:00am for church and I don’t think I’ve ever been more tired in my life. Sleeping is one of my best talents. Basically Newton’s third law was written specifically for me: An object at rest will stay at rest until acted upon by an unbalanced force. If no one bothered me, I could probably sleep for 3 days straight. So basically I was pretty much slumped in church. After church I woke up a little more and then had the energy of a 5 year old drinking a six pack of Mt.Dew while everyone else was asleep in bed. Since I’m not allowed to walk around Haiti by myself and none of the guys would walk with me, I became restless. It took me until the evening to realize that even God rested on the seventh day.
Being in Haiti, I constantly feel like I’m not doing enough. I feel like I always have to be moving and helping someone. I realized that I feel like this a lot of the time. When I’m home I always think I’m not doing enough for my community but I have to stop and realize that God specifically tells us to rest because we aren’t supposed to be lukewarm in any situation, God calls us to be all in. In order to use my full potential here I need to be well rested.
So today’s lesson that I learned is that in order to be the best that I can in Haiti, I need to take time and rest. God doesn’t call us to constantly be in motion, he wants us to rest just as he did.
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