Say it Again....one more time for me.

If this looks familiar,  it's because it was in my last post, but this is what I really need today:

Soul’s Rest

Ah, rest indeed is needed-

a time for quiet repose-

to hear the voice of gladness

speak gently with its prose.

To give the gift of freedom-

as soothing as the dew-

on parched flowers’ kingdom,

a gift from God to you.

So err not soul in sleeping,

just rest in gentle love;

the Light for your life’s keeping

flows freely from above.

                                     AJBB June 1977

I'm reminded again how we need the same thing we share with others again ourselves.  It's like eating.  Just because we had a nice meal yesterday doesn't mean we won't be in need of another meal today.  Life is like that in every area.  Just because we slept last night doesn't mean we don't need to sleep tonight.  I suppose it's a bit more difficult to enter into rest for our soul on a consistent basis, but it is attainable to enter more often than most of us do.  We are just so self reliant it interferes with our ability to "enter in". 

 A scripture in Hebrews tells us to labour to enter into rest.  Sounds like more work to me!  So at times it can be helpful to check out some other translations for a little more clarity.  Here are a couple other ways to say the same thing differently. Some translations use diligent, while some use the term, "make every effort".  What I enjoyed the most, though, was discovering that one of the corresponding meanings of the word labor as defined in Vine's Expository Dictionary Of New Testament Words is this:

to hasten to do a thing, to exert oneself, endeavour, give diligence;

What that means to me is, don't delay.  So in keeping with that, I'm going to endeavor to hasten to finish this entry and be diligent about preparing myself a cup of hot tea  while allowing my soul to be at rest as I do it!   Is this a better way to multitask, or what?