Even writers have days like that.

You know those days that you just have to drag yourself to work.

It’s true…we writers work for ourselves. But as bosses, we can be pretty mean. Hard-driving task-masters who can make even a wet noodle whipping look dangerous.

The kind of a boss that makes you work through lunch and can’t understand it when you want to go home at a decent hour. The kind who times your bathroom breaks.

And then there are those days…you know those days. When you’re not exactly sick, but you feel so “blah.”

The kind of day where you spill coffee on yourself twice, and you forget to lock the door after you leave the house, and you seriously need a “reset” button. I’m sure sleep-deprived moms everywhere know what I mean.

I’m having one of those days right now.

So, because I’m a writer, and I like making magic with my pen, I’ve created this snazzy meme for you.

Use it for those days when you just have to keep going forward, even when everything in you just wants to curl up and take a cat nap…but you can’t because little miss cutest-toddler-ever needs her lunch, or because some small-fry who shall not be named just tried to flush the pet hamster again.

Use it proudly. Print it and put it on the refrigerator if you have to.

Shucks. I say get it made into a beach towel so you can wear it around your neck like a cape. Add a tiara if it’s a really bad day.

You know you want to.

You know you deserve it…for showing up every day, rain or shine.

 

What did God do just before He rested?

He looked around.  He saw all He had made.  And He enjoyed it.  He said it was good.

Enjoying the fruit of your hands…enjoying the results of all your hard work is an essential element to resting the way God designed us to rest.

God didn’t need to rest.  He never gets tired. But what He did do was take time to enjoy His creation.

And…by the way…His creation?  That’s us.  He took time to enjoy us.

So the next time you have the opportunity to rest on the Sabbath, rest like God does.  Enjoy His creation. Enjoy your creation, too–the work of your hands.  And most of all, enjoy Him.

When the Lord told Joshua to “be strong and courageous” in Joshua 1:9, He did not mean Joshua needed to pull himself up by the bootstraps and manufacture strength.

Nope.  Because in God’s Kingdom, that’s not how strength occurs.  Strength always starts with trust first.  Trust God wholly and completely.  Lean all your weight on Him, so that if He didn’t reach out to work in your life, you’d fall flat on your face.

Because we weren’t designed to do anything in our own strength.  We were designed to take joy in His strength.