The Medicine of Rest

Sacred Song 62:1-2

“In my inward being, I remain silent, waiting only on One Who Hears, for my victory comes from the One Who Sets Me Free and makes me whole. He alone is the rock I stand on, my deliverer, and my safe place. I will never be shaken or moved” – Psalm 62:1-2, FNV

One of the Elders once said to me, “You are sleeping, but you are not resting.” Those words left an impression because that day I learned from a wise one that rest is more than closing our eyes. Rest is also a spiritual act intended for our recalibration. Rest listens to our body and our soul, gently working to move us toward balance. It is a dangerous, slippery slope for us to keep running on empty. When our waters run low, our love becomes brittle. We become short in measure, quick to anger, fractured in our decision-making, careless with our words, and we move through life with less capacity than God intends for us.

The psalmist reminds us that true rest begins in God. “In my inward being, I remain silent, waiting only on One Who Hears.” This rest is more than closing our eyes; it opens our hearts. Such rest offers the assurance that God listens with love, caring about everything that concerns us.

Out of this assurance, rest nurtures us. It stills the inner noise and makes room for regeneration. Rest is where our thoughts slow, our hearts recline into calm, and our bodies remember they need to be tended to by God. In this space, we rediscover that God is the rock beneath us and the shelter around us.

As you move through this day, receive the medicine of rest as God’s gift to you. Rest will refresh your spirit, bring balance where it has been missing, and ground you in the truth that God is your rock, your deliverer, and your safe place. In such rest, you will never be shaken or moved, for God surrounds you in strength and crowns you with victory.

Medicine for the Day

I receive the medicine of rest, and life flows back into me.