Today’s #FiveMinuteFriday Prompt: Rest
Sunset on St. Simon’s Island is always conducive to rest.
Sleep restores our bodies; rest restores our brains and spirits. It’s what we need to re-group, re-ground, and re-start.
I’ve often wondered why God didn’t give our brains an off switch. (No hint of a lie—I even asked a psychologist once if she could help me figure out how to turn myself off.) For me, rest isn’t just something I can sit down and do, but I can open myself up to it.
Rest comes in those treasured moments when I’m just being—enjoying life and those I love.
#FiveMinuteFriday
Every Friday, Lisa-Jo Baker, founder of “Five Minute Friday,” broadcasts a writing prompt, challenging writers to writer for five minutes only. In her words, “It’s not a perfect post, not a profound post, just five minutes of focused writing. “
This is a great writing exercise even if you’re not blogging your treasures (memories). Your spontaneous thoughts on a given subject can reveal your personality, daily life, beliefs, etc. If you are blogging, I encourage you to join in! If you want to connect on Twitter, use the hashtag #FiveMinuteFriday.
This was such a great post – and I loved learning from your wisdom in this. Your picture is so beautiful – – – what a refreshing time of peace it has been for me to spend a few minutes on your site.
God bless you – – – and I will take away what you wrote in the last paragraph:
“Rest comes in those treasured moments when I’m just being—enjoying life and those I love.”
May we both have those special moment of rest this coming weekend, and always.
Rest in His Grace,
Gina Marie
Ah Thanks Gina,
Thanks for reading and commenting. I’ll be sure to check yours out too!
Laura
choosing to rest in Him… 🙂
I love resting and rejuvenating @ St. Simons Island…it’s been a long time since I was there but it is beautiful!
I like your question about why can’t we have a switch to turn off our brains. It would be nice to turn off those nagging thoughts sometimes!
You are right, though. We don’t have to sleep to rest our bodies. A time of regrouping and rejuvenating is needed by all.
Love the picture you used to illustrate your post!