Okay, hey friends, welcome to the Ruth Joe Simon's podcast. And today we're going to talk about rest. We're going to talk about

rest again because I don't know about you, but I need another conversation about why it's so

hard to rest. Okay? Are you here? I'm telling you, it's the weirdest thing, but somehow you kind of go along your way and you

think, I'm doing fine, I'm getting the rest I need. And whether it's physical rest, emotional rest,

or spiritual rest, somehow I always find myself in this thing where, before I know it, I'm suddenly

in a cycle where I'm not sleeping enough. I'm kind of anxious and not emotionally rested,

and spiritually kind of forgetting where my rest comes from. So this is me, starting our conversation off today, admitting and confessing that

rest is hard.

Can I have a show of hands?

Can anybody raise your hand and say, okay, rest is hard?

Because I just, I don't know.

I don't know about you, but I get online and I feel like everybody seems to have

46 hours in a day.

Everybody else seems to have so much more time and they get so much done.

And I sit there and I think, how are they reading books and doing their laundry

and getting their hair colored and

cleaned? And I mean, how did they even get in the shower every day and make sure they have

plenty of time to prep for the day? So often I'm like, okay, I don't want to hit the ground

running. And yet I'm hitting the ground running again. I just got back from a trip. And so I think

it's especially poignant when I realized that at 49 years old, I can't skimp on rest like I used

to. Do any other middle-aged women want to testify? Because I used to be able to be like, no biggie.

I can pull an all-nighter.

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