Don’t settle for temporary relief when your rest lies at the end of a path marked by discomfort.
Sometimes it isn’t as simple as just choosing rest.
Sometimes you have to work to rest—but be aware that your notions of what work is may look very different from the kind of work rest requires.
Work can look like waiting or like holding your emotions/reactions/discouragements without tossing them onto someone else. It can also look like getting help—which may mean tossing them onto someone who can help you contain them.
Even “casting your cares” on Jesus can look a lot like work—because you may have to do it over and over and over again before the stuff stays with him.
Persist. Stick with the discomfort.
Avoidance is not the kind of work we’re looking for here.
Know that these seasons of life don’t last forever.
This too, as they say, shall pass.
Or maybe we are the ones who pass through?
Rest is waiting and we will find it.