Sometimes the pursuit of God is an exhausting enterprise. Which is why recovery often requires much more than a prayer for rest. We pray for healing rest without being willing to allow God’s disruption of our overworked schedules. But can that really work? Who expects to lose weight without changing their diet? Or desires to run a marathon without training? Praying for rest without going through the effort of learning how to Sabbath is as difficult a prayer to answer as any. Could God do it? Yes. But I suspect that we do not need to pray about our exhaustion—we need to learn how to rest. We
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