Day 7: Restless Stories

It is finished. It is good.

Last week, we journeyed through the Seven Levels of the Candy Cane Forest and the sea of swirly-twirly gumdrops (June 1 … not too soon for Elf references, right?) to get to the bottom of rest. It took a little time and a lot of honesty, but hopefully you got to it – what it is you really need a break from.

This week, we’re going to talk some more about that from because our anxiety doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It has a beginning – a Page 1 of when it all started, and I bet what you uncovered last week wasn’t a new worry. Not really. There’s probably a whole story of this anxiety coming and going in your life, and it carries implications because it’s skewing your perception, cutting your peace, and keeping you restless.

There is no rest in a story where the plot is driven by restlessness.

If we’re going to find rest, we need a new story.

We need a story that begins with the last page.

We need a story where that last page is victory.

It is finished. It is good.

The first sentence was Jesus’ last before he sacrificed his soul for ours. The second is the one God repeated after each step of creation. Each sentence is an assertion. Combined, they are that victorious conclusion I both work from and work toward. Within them is the story that offers infinite rest and infinite reasons to spend my life waging a war of light against the sin within me and within this world.

It is finished. It is good.

I live this story best when I am undivided. We need to let the restless stories go. This week is about how to stop telling ourselves the restless ones about our past, present, and future so we can step into the one.

We’re talking rest right now on the blog – what it is, why we need it, and how we get it. If you just jumped in, go to Post 1 to catch up. Sign up for the blogs to go straight to your Inbox so you don’t miss any!