day 1016: Vacation Time!

"Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest."

Around the world, people are preparing for the holiday months and with that comes vacation time. Americans are different than those in other countries.  We consider vacation a few days away from the office whereby those in other countries like to really get away. It's not unusual to see people take a month of vacation at a time. We all try and make the most of vacation and if like me, by the time I hit vacation time I am exhausted by all of the work that has to get done to get ready to be gone for an extended period of time. It's almost like we are crazed by the time vacation time rolls around. There also seems to be some lingering thing that sneaks in and keeps us from fully being away. It's the conference call, it's the report that needs to be written, it's the calls that have to be made, yada yada. It's like the anti-vacation forces are trying to keep us sucked back into the job. All of that wears us down and can make us more tired than we should be. We get weary and when we get weary we get cranky and when we get cranky our judgment gets lessened and our decision making falters. It is a slippery slope.

The same happens in our spiritual life and before long we have lost our disciplines of reading the Bible, praying and being in fellowship with other believers.. Regardless of the weariness of work or the weariness of life, we need to fall back onto God for the rest we so need. We fall back onto Matthew 11:28; "Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens and I will give you rest." As you head into the next vacation time, have no worries that God, if you let Him, will give you the rest that you need. All we have to do is call upon Him in our weariness and hand it over to Him.

Reference: Matthew 11:28 (New Living Testament)