How do you know the difference between resting, sabbathing, and just being lazy?

We'll talk about that today.

Welcome back to Dad Tired Daily.

You can tell how close a man is with Jesus by how well rested he is.

That's the claim that I made on yesterday's episode.

And one of the things that you could say as a pushback or maybe just confusion might be,

well, what does it actually look like to rest? So we talked about having these one minute pauses, these micro-sabiths

throughout the day where you kind of get your brain and your nervous system out of fight or flight.

You try to kind of calm yourself down. But sometimes I have personally felt like I don't

know the difference between being lazy or having a

lazy day or just being lazy for a few hours and am I actually resting. And so I want to tease out

for just a minute or two. Like what does it look like to rest versus what does it look like to be

lazy? And one is actually draining you. Doesn't restore your soul at all. It numbs you and pulls you

away from a moment. And one is actually very restorative. And so here's what I think it looks like.

I'm going to try to be super practical in today's episode. One way that you could take this is you

could say, I've had a long workday. I feel really exhausted. I'm mentally and

emotionally drained. And so you go home and you might think to yourself, I have an excuse. I listen to

the podcast. Jared said I need to rest. And so I'm going to come home and I'm going to binge out on a

Netflix show. I'm going to grab crack open, whatever you want to crack open to relax. We've got all kinds

of denominations here, so I never make assumptions. Maybe you have a pill that you go to,

or you start scrolling your phone, or there's a certain app that kind of, you know, helps you

just mentally check out from the chaos of the day. At the end of any of those activities that I just

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