"No Rest for the Weary"
As we rushed about our weekday evening, me making dinner, signing school papers, helping with homework, running one kid here and another there, the kids doing homework, chatting to me about their days at school, and working on their daily chores, I nonchalantly said out loud, "There is no rest for the weary." My oldest child, a 13 year old boy, stopped in his tracks to wherever he was headed and replied "That's not what God says. He tells us that He gives rest to the weary." Feeling like I had been shaken awake I stopped what I was doing and looked him in the eyes and said "You are so right. Thank you for that reminder." He chuckled and looked a bit proud that He had "corrected" his mom and went on his way. You see the world tells us that old saying about there being no rest for the weary but that is the exact opposite of what the Bible says. Matthew 11:28 says "Then Jesus said, 'Come to me, all of you who are weary an