Resting on His Promises
I went thrift shopping with my mom and I love thrifting books. I loved the library growing up. Its fun to take my kids to the same library, it brings back so many memories. While thrifting I felt a pull towards a book that was perfectly titled Everyday Sabbath The Real Art of Real Life Rest by Judy Braddy, with an illustration of a kitchen sink full of dishes. It felt like it should have said Dear Nicole, Here is your life and I have some tidbits of goodness in here for you that you have been praying about. I want to focus on a chapter titled Resting on His Promises. I struggle with the words rest and sabbath. Rest feels unproductive and Sabbath feels ritualistic. Rest to me was sitting or laying doing nothing. Or binge watching TV. Sabbath dinner was something our family tried once and it was great to see culturally what some families do on a weekly basis, its a part of their life story. Its beautiful but felt like I would have offended anyone who knew what they w
