Author: Anne Graham Lotz
Published: August 31, 2005
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In your fast-paced, stressed-out life, do you lack rest? Do you actually long for it? I do. There have been times when even a hospital stay has appeared attractive, simply because of the rest it would seem to afford.
But there is hope. It's summertime, when traditionally the living should be easy—when life should kick back, shift gears and go at a more leisurely pace. It's a time when many of us take vacations. But in my life, the only difference summer seems to make in my overloaded schedule is that it's hot outside.
So as the summer turns into fall, I find myself looking over my shoulder wistfully, longing for the rest I haven't had. I want to be really rested. Well rested. I need the kind of rest only God can give ... the rest that the writer to the Hebrews described as being something of a trilogy, with three distinct parts:
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