Wednesday
of the 2nd Week of Advent
December 10, 2014 6:30am
Today’s gospel passage got me
thinking about the idea of rest.
Jesus says: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you
rest.
You will find rest for yourselves.”
I got thinking about what words
or ideas I associate with rest.
I have placed them in
alphabetical order:
comfort, clear-headedness, home,
peace, refreshment, and security,
Maybe you can think of some other
associations with rest.
Very simply, Jesus invites us to
find our rest in him.
So in him we can find comfort
when we are besieged or troubled;
clear-headedness when we just
need perspective on things;
a home or home-base where we know
we will just be taken and accepted as we are;
peace when we feel anxious or in
conflict;
refreshment when we are tired and
need something to enliven our spirits;
and security, something, someone
to hold on to amidst the uncertainties of life.
At least for me, that is what
resting in Jesus can bring us.
Being with the Lord in prayer or
silence or being with others as persons of faith can bring us this kind of
rest.
I came across a brief night
prayer that I think expresses something of the rest we can find in Jesus.
I will close with this:
“Holy Friend,
I leave a great deal still undone,
but that’s what you make tomorrows for.
‘Sufficient today are the evils thereof’
but sufficient as well the successes.
For both of which I thank you.
Amen.”
