Grace Filled Lemons

Some of us are good at doing.
We wake up with to-do lists in our minds and a quiet sense of pressure in our chests.
We serve and sweep and organize. We give and go and keep going.

We think: If I just get one more thing done, then I can breathe.

But God didn’t design us to live in constant motion.
He designed us to live in rhythm—work and rest, sowing and stillness.
Even in the Garden, before the fall, before pain, before sin—there was rest.

“And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had done, and He rested…”
— Genesis 2:2

Rest is not laziness.
Rest is not quitting.
Rest is holy.
Because God Himself did it.

When we rest with trust, we declare that we are not God.
We stop striving, and we let Him carry what only He can carry.
We acknowledge that our value doesn’t come from our productivity but from His love.

And in doing so, we build His Kingdom in a way the world doesn’t understand.

Your rest can become an act of faith.
Your stillness can be worship.
Your quiet presence, your sabbath soul, your unclenched hands—all of it speaks: God is enough.

And maybe that’s the loudest Kingdom message of all.

A Prayer for Sacred Stillness:

Lord, You worked and You rested.
Teach me to follow Your rhythm.
Help me lay down the burdens I was never meant to carry.
Remind me that You are still working, even when I stop.
Let my rest become an offering.
Let it become a place where I meet You.
Amen.

Journaling Prompts:

• What is my current relationship with rest—do I resist it, avoid it, crave it, or feel guilty for it?
• What would it look like to build sacred rest into my life this week?
• Where am I over-functioning out of fear, pride, or control?
• How can I let go, even a little, and let God take the lead?

Take this as your gentle permission:
You do not have to earn your worth.
God is already pleased to dwell with you—even in stillness.

With you in the slow and sacred,
Laura