Hi everyone, welcome to a time of being still and being loved.

My name is Alisa Keaton and today we are going to rest in the arms of our father.

Go ahead and take a moment to place yourself in a comfortable yet attentive position.

So if you choose to lie down on your back, think about having a long spine on the back.

And they'll begin to breathe.

If you're seated in a chair, same thing, think length from tailbone to crown of your head

and begin to breathe.

This is a purposeful time of rest to receive the love of the father.

He wants to give you a gift in this time, the gift of rest.

For you are a child of the promise.

So we cease striving and we enter his rest.

Let's do the ABCs of coming into the presence of our father.

First, become aware, just become aware of your body, the weight, the rest against gravity,

the support of the chair or the floor, inhale with the count of four, and exhale.

That's the B, breathe, A is for awareness, B is for breath.

Notice already how your shift is happening inside of you, from frustration or tension,

to appreciation, peace, and the C stands for connect.

Take your intention to connect with the one who created you.

The one who cries out to you, come, A, B, C.

Awareness, breath, connect.

Holy Spirit, we thank you for drawing us here to this time.

Thank you that we were aware that we needed to rest more than anything else that our work

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