Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life

in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Tanya Wilmeth and right now we're in the book of Exodus. Do you go to bed

only to wake up the next day feeling tired and stressed and anxious? We go through life feeling tired and we think we're not getting enough

sleep but in reality there are other types of rest we're missing out on that we

desperately need it's not just sleep. So Dr. Sandra Dalton Smith wrote a book called

Sacred Rest and she actually identifies seven areas of rest our bodies need and

only one of those is physical sleep.

Yes, our culture tends to promote a lifestyle of high achievement

and productivity.

So we become burned out anxious producers

and we instinctively know we need to stop and

slow down long enough to calm our thoughts and rekindle our passions and our

creativity but we feel like doing it is counterproductive so according to. Smith there are six types of rest beyond just

physical rest or sleep. She says we need mental rest. These are breaks that allow our

brain to just slow down. We need sensory rest. This is like an intentional deprivation of stimulus to intentionally draw away from our over-stimulating world of noise, buzz, and electronics.

Creative Rest. We need emotional rest.

emotional rest.

That would be like stepping away from people pleasing,

from meeting expectations,

from navigating how other people are feeling, let alone

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