It's the week of June 10th. Welcome to the Ransomed Heart

podcast. I'm Alan Arnold and if you've been listening the past few weeks you may have

picked up on a theme. Two weeks ago we talked about the serious business of play.

How important it is to have play as a part of our life.

Last weekend we told you about the Ransomed Heart Homecoming, a live event here in Colorado

Springs this November, which we hope you'll join us for our, and it's all about how we care

for our soul in a world gone mad.

This week we're going to talk to you about how do we rest in God?

How do we rest even as we're invited into new terrain? How do we rest even in the

midst of what's going on around us? It's not about striving harder. It's not about making things happen. But it's how

we rise and rest in what we face. Now this message is from Stacey Eld. She was leading a live women at the well event,

something we do here at the outpost occasionally. And so it was a room full of women, and she's talking to them

about a theme and about a story and about a message of

hope from the book of Esther. So we invite you to listen as Stacy presents this

message called Rise and Rest.

One day the King of Persia threw a lavish party.

And okay it's not one day. One day he may have thought of throwing this party, but this is a party that's going to last for six months. This is a banquet for every noble in his land,

and after the six-month party,

he throws a six-week party for every man in Susa.

Now, Xerxes is a powerful king. His kingdom rains from India to the Sudan.

Okay, just imagine it. There's over 127 provinces.

So you know the story.

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