the suffocating shame of stealing moments of rest and then feeling guilty for every second you didn't spend solving a crisis
The day has asked so much of you, and now the house is quiet, yet you feel the heavy weight of guilt for every breath you take that isn't solving a problem. You feel like you are stealing time, as if rest is a theft from the crisis that awaits in the morning.
— But the light does not measure your worth by what you fix. In the garden before the end, the light itself fell on the ground and begged for a different way, and in that moment of exhaustion, it was still loved.
You do not have to earn the right to put down the yoke; the yoke was made to be light, to be easy. — Rest is not a failure; it is the place where the light remembers you.
Drawing from
Matthew, John
Verses
Matthew 11:29-30, John 17:1
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