{"id":217,"date":"2011-01-28T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/gods-rest\/"},"modified":"2011-01-28T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T22:46:00","slug":"gods-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylrostek.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/28\/gods-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am tired.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>I am worn out from another round of emotion.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>As soon as I woke from my surgery yesterday, the tears came again.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>My head didn\u2019t process the emotion, but I just needed to cry.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>It was over.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>At least it was truly beginning to be over: this time of miscarriage that for some reason has lasted over 3 weeks.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>I needed to cry because it didn\u2019t feel fair, it felt awful to have to go through a medical procedure like that, knowing that that is not the way it was supposed to be.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>My friend Sarah speaks of us living in a broken fallen world and she doesn\u2019t mince words, it just really sucks sometimes.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>That is where I am.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Medically, I have never had to have an IV before, I have never had general anesthetic before, I have never had surgery before.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Though the procedure was relatively simple, it was a big deal medically for me.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>And having to go through it because of a miscarriage, well that simply stinks.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>And today as I woke from a night\u2019s sleep it all replays back in my mind and truly though certainly yesterday was not the worst day one could imagine, I am recouping and I am so thankful that part of the story includes the wonderful nurse Katy in the OR recovery room who let me cry and was simply a really good nurse.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Thank you Katy.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>Now what?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>I ask again, Now what?<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>I find it beyond me that so many women have to go through this in one way or another.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Miscarriage is common.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>But each story is different.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Each story is painted with different emotions, different background, and different people.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>The essence is the same.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>It sucks.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>My story is painted with numerous emotions that my journal entries have pictured, but it also has a central player in it, which would not be in everyone\u2019s story: God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Some people get angry if they hear it is God\u2019s plan, when certainly God\u2019s plan is being painful, tough, and crappy!<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>I don\u2019t know.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Well I do know that God does have a great and better plan for His children than I could formulate on my own.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>But in a time like this, more than that, God has arms of unending comfort.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>He has compassion.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>He has the answer: Rest in me. And God\u2019s rest is different from the rest we so commonly know.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>God\u2019s rest is not a movie day in our PJs.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>God\u2019s rest is a place of comfort, safety and peace.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>It is a place to mourn because God knows how we feel so we might as well let it all out.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">   <\/span>A place to talk it through, or shout it out, or yell our hurts, because God promises He hears us when we speak.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">   <\/span>A place to fall broken and tired and weary and worn out and with no energy left, because God promises strength.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>God\u2019s rest is restoration to the body, to the spirit, to the mind, to the soul.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>God created us and knows that you cannot remove one aspect of health from another and so when He restores us he touches us wholly.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Maybe you\u2019re like me and you find watching TV or taking naps or physical recovery or activities of the like, non-productive.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Personally, I like being productive.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>But listen, listen to me, try God\u2019s rest.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>I can\u2019t imagine this life without it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>As I have found out, my plans will always sooner or later fail.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>And then what? Then God.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Then God\u2019s restoration.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>(And hopefully, then I will remember in the future it is better to have the divine planner do His work, than I.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>But if you don\u2019t want to hear those words, that\u2019s okay.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>Because life truly does suck sometimes and then all you do is take it one step at a time.<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">  <\/span>God\u2019s rest is the first step.)<span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\">    <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am tired. I am worn out from another round of emotion. As soon as I woke from my surgery yesterday, the tears came again. 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