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That's floridacrystals.com. This hustle and bustle world that we live in can sometimes seem like it's also an impossible place to find rest.

So today we're talking about why rest is so essential, who came up with the idea that we need to be resting and how to find better quality and more rest in your life.

So one of our good friends, Andre, from Ukraine, really spoken to a couple times on the podcast, made a request this week.

He requested that as a follow up to our recent podcast on wasting time and how Satan wants us to waste our time, which I still think is true.

He asked if we could also talk about rest because he was doing, he does these weekly Instagram lives where he does a report on how many people they've fed and how many deliveries they made and how many steps he took, how many miles they drove because he's still helping feed people during the war in Ukraine.

He was talking about how he took a couple of days off last week and he felt lazy and he felt like he was wasting his time and I said, no, Andre, you are resting. That's what God needs you to do.

And when I did an Instagram post actually earlier this week as well about this concept of, are we really using our time in the best way or are we wasting our time.

Someone on there also who's a frequent reader and commenter and an Instagram friend said something about her husband died unexpectedly in August and it's been really hard on her.

And she's just felt like she needed to rest more and I told her, you're doing exactly what God needs you to do right now, you're healing, you're resting, that's not wasting time, that's what this time and season of your life is meant for.

So I feel like it was a great idea to talk about rest because there's balance in all things and it doesn't mean that just because we talked about making sure that you're not wasting all of your time or a significant portion of your time, you don't also have to be productive 100% of the day all day every day and that rest is actually not only really productive but needed.

So I wanted to start out with first of all the example that we believe our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ that when they created the world.

So this is one of my favorite things about going to the temple and something I really miss but in the temple were instructed on how the world was created and it follows the Bible, it follows Genesis and so it explains like day one they made this and day two they did that.

And everything from dividing the light from the darkness to creating beasts of the field and thousand fishes and but at the very end of all of that creation in Genesis chapter two verses one through three it says, thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the hosts of them.

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