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Rest does not mean that we stop doing hard things. It does not mean we withdraw from responsibility, obedience, courage, or the realities of life. What rest begins to dismantle is the need to prove who we are while we do them. Many of us fear that if we truly rest, we will become passive or disengaged. But beneath that fear is something more personal. If we stop striving, stop producing, stop offering something to justify our place, what will hold us? Rest brings us face to f

There are times when the daily movement that keeps us busy becomes a way to avoid being fully present. It is not that we do not know stillness or rest, but that there are seasons when the Lord invites us into a deeper place of being seen. I have been noticing how easily faithful activity can keep me moving just enough to avoid staying still with what love wants to touch. Not because rest is unfamiliar, but because movement can soften the edge of presence. Stillness removes di