A Daughter Who Dwells | Healthy Habits | Prioritizing Rest

Hey! I just stumbled on your video, and I really loved it. Currently God has been working on me with rest. I am a freshman in college and I moved to a new city (Houston to Chicago), also I am an actor and have a bunch of interests. I had a bunch of goals and things I wanted to do and I worked really hard my senior year and summer to move. Then I moved, and God told me to rest. It has always been very hard for me because I was raised by a family who promoted hard work and almost worshipped it. I started getting kinda angry at God because I realized that 1.) I measure God’s goodness by how much “good” or “bad” is in my life 2.) Think rest is unproductive 3.) Realized that basically everything I do doesn’t matter to God. I realized that the resentment I felt towards him was actually pride because I couldn’t be self-sufficient and rely on what my God (hard work) would do for me. So yeah really sorry for my long story, but I wanted to let you know that you are definitely not alone in your journey to finding the value in rest and how to properly take it. It’s a weird feeling for sure especially when you are young and you constantly feel the anxiety and the worry that you are missing out on something, but the truth the truth is that unless the lord builds it, all the builders work is in vain. There is no way I can outwork Gods goodness. And there has been immense beauty and difficulty in the season where God is bringing me back to simplicity so that I can focus on what’s truly important. I hope that my long dissertation didn’t bore you lol, but to let you know that you are not alone and that it is amazing to see that someone else is on that journey too. It can feel very isolating, but I pray that in the new year, you will experience a new revelation of God that opens up your capacity for faith and hope. P.S. You are beautiful btw!

This was so good