Hey everyone. This is Trevor Grindle, one of the producers of the Allender Center podcast.

We know that rest is of the utmost importance in order to recover from the toll that stress takes

on our bodies, our minds, and our hearts. Here at the Allender Center, we are practicing

what we teach, and many of our team members are taking reduced work hours

and vacation time during the month of July. In that spirit, we are choosing to re-air three popular

past episodes that center around the theme of rest this month. Even if you have heard these before,

we hope that you will take the time to listen, reflect, and purposely make space for rest

in your own life.

This episode is a reflection from Dr. Dan Allender during his sabbatical from teaching back in 2015.

We hope that listening back to this portion of Dan's story will serve as an encouragement to examine our own attitudes towards rest.

Here's the replay of The Cost of Rest with Dr. Dan Allender.

Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast. I'm Dr. Dan Allender.

And I'm Rachel Clinton-Cenn. We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.

And restoration for the heart.

Thank you for joining us.

Let's get this conversation started.

I thought I would step us back into reflecting on Sabbath and using my own sabbatical as a context to invite you to ponder some of the implications of your own approach to rest, to play, to delight, to reprise a bit of what I put words to the last time.

We are meant for a weekly, now that what's the next word?

A weekly rest, yes, it's what God did on the seventh day. But rest, as we mostly think of it, is

taking a break. I'm so sad to say that I think many people take a break by watching a film,

watching movies, watching TV, just saw a report and have no means to confirm or offer you where it's from,

but it suggested that we look at our iPhones or our smartphones somewhere around 240 times a day

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