Yesterday on Revive Our Hearts, Shona and David Murray talked about the importance of sleep and exercise.

That led us to wonder, if it's hard to fit it all in, which is more important, sleep or exercise?

You know, I think if you're at the end of a day and you have to choose between exercise or sleep,

what you want to do is a little exercise, like a non-vigorous walk,

so that you're not getting all these chemicals going that make you alert and bright and not sleep

all night, but do enough stimulation to get your body into a state where you can enjoy better sleep.

Because I think that's the wonderful thing about exercise.

It helps you sleep better.

You have to fit it in, again, within your limitations.

If you have a long, busy day and I think sleep in any given 24-hour period,

you can live in that 24-hour period without exercise,

but you really will struggle to live successfully

or productively without sleep. So I would prioritise sleep. And again, it's humility. It's saying

if Christ was in front of me to snow, what would he say? And I think very often when you put it

like that, it's very easy to decide what to do next,

or what not to do next. You would say, come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden,

I will give you rest.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Swalcumuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest, for February 1st, 2018.

All this week, Nancy's been talking with David and Shona Murray. He's a pastor and she's a medical doctor,

and they've teamed up to describe ways we can live out the biblical invitation,

Come to me, all who are weary, and I will give you rest.

Well, David, in that introduction, you brought up this whole subject of rest,

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