Resting

We live in a restless age and a time that does NOT encourage a prolonged concentration on anything. We live in the age of options and as Os Guinness wrote about the “smorgasbord factor” (see The Gravedigger File), as the options increase, commitment to any one option will simultaneously decrease. And so, blessed with innumerable options/choices in almost every area of life, we are apparently freer and yet less settled, less rooted, less content than ever before. How many television channels do we really need?

Is it possible (as we said a few weeks ago) that like a Great Blue Whale who doesn’t want to be limited to the water and wants to be liberated to live where it wants, where it chooses…in the desert? ARE we also at risk of missing deep life/fulfillment because we won’t give up our options?… Are we enslaved to freedom…and thus NOT free at all?

Let’s look at this issue of settling down, of resting: 1) The Quest for Rest 2) Rest Revealed and 3) The Practice of Resting.