When I pause to take care of myself, I acknowledge implicitly that the world will go on without me. That my “self” cannot do everything. That I am not God. Self-care is a realization of the limits of the self, a hearkening to the fundamentally contingent nature of being a human. It is not closed in a little bubble of selfishness, but a gentle, trusting acknowledgment that God is God and I am not. When you rest, you tell the truth about the world.
