BONUS: Have we forgotten how to rest?
First15 Devotional
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🗓️ 1 April 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Families all over the world are dealing with the Coronavirus and its implications on their lives. Craig and Rachel sat down to discuss the restlessness so many of us are facing as we are forced into social distancing and how we can use this time to return to our truest self as God’s beloved child during this time.
They address questions like - Why do we resist being? Where does this deep need to perform, achieve, and strive come from? How can we return to and embrace rest?
We hope that this encourages you to embrace the stillness and turn inward to examine your own well-being on a daily basis.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm the first of team podcast. I'm so excited to share with you a special |
| 0:08.8 | episode, an interview with my wife Rachel Denison, who is going to talk to us about this idea of |
| 0:14.8 | restlessness that I think we're unearthing as a people as we just can't be as |
| 0:19.4 | busy as we're used to being. And so Rachel recently wrote in a wonderful blog |
| 0:24.6 | that's on the First of the team website |
| 0:25.8 | called Have We Forgotten How to Rest? |
| 0:28.3 | And I think it's an amazing context |
| 0:30.6 | for us to be able to explore how we can invite God to meet us in the sense of |
| 0:34.2 | restlessness in the midst of COVID-19 in the coron the podcast. I was so excited to talk to you tonight |
| 0:50.0 | as we're recording this. I with First 15 we've been really looking to how can we resource |
| 0:54.8 | ourselves and other people in the midst of the craziness that is the coronavirus in |
| 1:00.0 | COVID-19 in the midst of social distancing how do we maintain closeness of |
| 1:05.1 | relationship closeness relationship with God and ourselves and those that are |
| 1:08.5 | close to us and I really really loved your blog when I first read it that ended up being titled, |
| 1:14.4 | How Have We Forgotten How to Rest? |
| 1:17.4 | Speaking specifically to this idea of can we allow God to redeem our experiences in the midst of this challenging time? |
| 1:24.3 | So I'm really excited to talk about some of the nuggets of revelation that you had in there tonight. |
| 1:28.1 | Thanks, babe, yeah, I'm really excited to be here. |
| 1:31.3 | This is definitely a bizarre challenging time and there's a lot for all of us to learn and take away from it. |
| 1:37.0 | And I know that God wants to show up and meet us even in this strange time of social distancing where we're locked up in our homes and dealing with all kinds of fear and anxiety. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm just excited to see what he wants to do in us during this time. |
| 1:52.0 | That's so good. |
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