December 2022
Rest is a beautiful interruption in a world that has no pause button. —Tricia Hersey, The Nap Ministry
Did you know that there are 7 kinds of rest? Physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory, and creative. Read more →
Realize that we were taught
to fear the dark. Read more →
Carleous
CLF Member, incarcerated in CO
For me, rest is a state of calm. It is a winding down, a meditation of stillness.
When I speak of rest, I don’t refer to sleep — I refer to our Creator. Rest shifts my attention to the one responsible for it all. It’s a release and giving into a higher power.
Rest is a break and a breakthrough that allows us to regain the energy to continue on.
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We want summer to be leisurely. We want it to be restful. We want it to involve sandals, long meandering days, the sound of ice cubes clinking in a glass, a steady stream of lemonade or ice tea.
We don’t, usually, want it to involve more to-do lists and travel details than the winter holidays. And most of us don’t want it to fly by, though we all acknowledge that it does.
What is just one of your hopes for the summer months? I am asking myself and my family that question these days, as we charge full-bore into a busy summer. I suppose it will fly by, but I am not at all a hot-weather person and I live in Washington D.C., so it’s just fine with me if it at least scoots along pretty quickly. I am looking forward to particular moments of various trips—moments I can already imagine myself wanting to freeze and grasp and hold. And I am also a little overwhelmed by all the details of traveling with a toddler. “It’s an adventure, it’s an adventure, it’s an adventure,” I keep telling myself, but if every day is an adventure, when do we get to relax? In the hubbub of summer activities, when and how will we pause and breathe and do what feels most summery to me: savor our lives, in all their fullness?
Photographs are one way that I savor the beautiful moments—I love taking photos and I love going over them, looking through them again and again, making cards and books from them. I’d like to figure out some other, more familial, interactive ways to pause and savor together as a family and as the groups of families, friends, colleagues and communities that we will be dancing in-and-out of this summer. What do you do to savor the summer?
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