Hey everyone it's Leslie Ludi host of the Set-A-Part-Grel podcast biblical encouragement for women of all ages.

Today we're going to dive into a really important topic on how to rest the right way.

I think so many of us live very fast-paced lives and there's the cultural way to

rest and refuel and then there's the biblical way so today we're going to be

taking a look at God's version of

resting the right way, resting in a way that is going to truly refuel our

souls. I remember one time Eric and I were so exhausted after several weeks of speaking

events and we really had not learned the secret of resting the right way.

We felt like the only thing that we could do was to just go brain dead and so I remember

we rented this cabin up in the mountains and we just went on this movie marathon fest for about two days. We rented all these DVDs and just watched

one movie after the next for two days straight, barely got off the couch and it was

really kind of sad as I look back on it to see wow we just completely sat there and you

know didn't really engage with each other or cultivate anything spiritually just kind of allowed

Hollywood to entertain us for two days straight and we were really

convinced you know that was the only thing that was going to help us get

over the exhaustion and the the burnout and the tiredness that we are feeling.

And several years later, God really began to speak to us about this area of our lives, that he had

his own way of resting and refueling and it was very

different than the culture's way of resting. And it was really life-changing for

us to realize that God has rest for us, but it's not necessarily in the lazy self-indulgent

way that our culture promotes. Now our culture really speaks out of two sides of its

mouth because on the one hand we always feel the

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