Rest Is Not Abandoning The Broken World
The silence finally arrives, and for a second, your shoulders drop. Then the guilt hits—because you feel relieved that the world has stopped screaming long enough for you to stop caring.
You think this pause makes you cruel. It does not.
Even the light needed to go away to a solitary place while it was still dark, just to breathe. You are not abandoning the broken world by resting; you are letting the God who is greater than your heart hold it for a few hours.
The news will roar again at dawn. But right now, in this quiet, you are allowed to put the weight down.
The relief you feel is not a failure of love. It is the sound of the Father saying: I have the watch.
Drawing from
Mark 1:35, 1 John 3:20
Verses
1 John 3:20
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