Intentional Rest
I am stealing the beginning of this post from my good friend Stephanie who recently posted this on her FB page. As a musician it makes perfect sense - on a personal level, it is a challenge. Life's Rests - John Ruskin 1819-1900 There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests," and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives, and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the rest? See him beat the time with unvarying count, and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. But be it ours to learn the tune, and not be dism...