Busy days again

I just finished my assigned project last mid July, and I guess I had enough time to relax a bit while waiting for my next project. Last week, my boss asked me to help in another project. I knew then that I'm gonna be busy for the next couple of weeks.

True enough, "over time" was the word of the week for me since last Tuesday. Our team even had to work last Saturday, which is quite unusual here in OCS. hehehe... Because of that, I had to be absent from an important meeting in church and that also meant missing my family since I had to stay at my cousin's place in Manila during the weekend.

Anyway, I found this in my inbox this morning as I was checking my emails. This is actually from my Heartlight devotional email subscription. I just thought its message is very timely for me.

And yes, in busy times like these, there's only one place where I can find rest and be refreshed once again. Read on, and I hope you'd find this reminder helpful as well. :)

VERSE:

Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed.
-- Exodus 23:12 --

THOUGHT:

Refreshed! Boy that's often hard in any time, but it's especially hard in August, isn't it? It's either the dead of summer or the dead of winter depending on which side of the equator you find yourself. Either way, we need to hear God's desire for all of us to be refreshed and to allow those around us to be refreshed in his presence, his grace, and his rest.

PRAYER:

Forgive me, God, for being so busy being busy that I don't intentionally take time to be refreshed in your rest. Teach me gently, Father, that I need this weekly rest in your presence and with my family to be all that you want me to be, and all that I can be. Restore my soul, O God, and fill me with your restful joy. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.