Being Refreshed
Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time?
Well just the other day I was.
Some of my granddaughters were in a spa and I was outside on a chair watching them while reading a book. They were playing with a pool noodle. One of them was filling it with water from one end and blowing it out from the other. She was aiming at her sister, but she dodged it. So, guess who got sprayed with a fast propulsion of water. ME!
After I stopped screaming from the shock. I laughed out loud – it was very funny.
Luckily my book had a laminated plastic front cover. Then I realised that my phone was also quite wet, so I dived for a towel to dry it. No harm was done.
I reflected that I was in the right place. Spending fun, quality time, with my grandchildren.
The next activity was watching an obstacle course game called ‘the floor is lava.’ A team of 3 competes against other teams to get across the room without touching the floor (the lava) with the fastest time and the greatest number of players still alive.
Then we moved to showing magic tricks to each other using cups and straws.
Very enjoyable.
These types of activities will continue for 3 days because it is sleep over at Pa and Grammie’s house during the school holidays. Everyday Pa and Grammie have planned different activities for them. They are even going to help us cut up cardboard to take to the dump and take down our cans and bottles we collect to recycle. Ha ha!
God in His wonderful love for us likes us having these fun family times where we all build good memories.
They are times when we rest ourselves mentally and physically, which always helps us even spiritually to rest in Him. A different kind of rest where the stress of the world disappears for a while. Where we can breathe in the clean fresh air, take stock of where we are and refresh.
Jesus took his disciples away often for refreshment after doing ministry.
He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.
Mark 6:31-32 NRSV
We need to use the example of Jesus and the disciples to be refreshed and ready for whatever the Lord might ask us to do.
May these jottings from my journal inspire you to believe in and fall in love with Christ- the hope of the world, as stated in Jeremiah 17:7, ‘Blessed is the man who believes and trusts in and relies on the Lord and whose hope and confident expectation is the Lord!’
Love
Rosemary
Every week groups of ladies meet together to chat about the things I raise in my weekly blog post and to chat about life in general. We call these ‘Heart Connect’ groups.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What ways do you find refreshment?
How often do you allow yourself to rest? Or do you find this difficult?
What are some of the ways that you can rest in God?
5 Comments
Ellen O
I like to spend time resting with God. I have many books that have Daily Devotions and I pray the Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet daily. It helps me connect with Our Lord and take my mind off of stressing things. It brings me peace!
Valerie Lack
I haven’t been well over the last few weeks. First I hurt my left leg exercising and could hardly walk, so I took Mobolic for a week, then I got a terribly itchy painful head and eye which I thought might be an allergy to the Mobolic so took antihistamine
. The long and short of it was that I finally was diagnosed with shingles, even though I had been vaccinated. Thank goodness I had had the Vaccination. I hate to think how horrible it would have been without it. Thank you God for the diagnosis.
As you can see it was an enforced rest. Amazing how little dust means to you once you are too unwelll to notice it.
Ah! Yes rest in God. It is the best rest.
Valerie Simms
Valerie is my name too!!! Valerie I will pray that those shingles will leave you alone, that you will have peace always in the Lord and in your life and be restored…
In Christ’s Love
Valerie
Valerie Simms
Thank you Rosemary for this funny message about your granddaughters and having quiet time with our Good Loving Lord God. I am the only one in my family, relatives, those who I know somewhat and don’t know who prays to our Lord God. Some ridicule, some criticize, some joke…Some even say that I pray far too much. I had been diagnosed that I have little Vitamin D, so I go out in the sunshine and take a tablet of Vitamin D once a week. I try to go to a park, so that I can pray there. There is peace and quiet there…I am also so disappointed that my son and his girlfriend, who have been living for more than 10 years together, do not want to be married and not have children. It means to me that up to this present time I will have no grandchildren. It is so good to see that you have grandchildren Rosemary, and that they bring you joy and laughter!!! May our Good Loving Lord continue to bless you, Rosemary, Bruce and all your family, your ministries and all who do good work in them ABUNDANTLY!!!
In Christ’s Love
Valerie
Charmaine Kistan
Thank you Rosemary for reminding me to take time out to rest. This is something I find so hard to do.
The smallest of things like having coffee with a friend or adding 15 minutes more to my prayer time has made a difference.
May God continue to bless you, Bruce and the team for all that you do to bring people closer to God 🫶🙏