I was reading an article about listening to God this week.\u00a0 It talked about a closeness, an intimacy with God that involved\u00a0communicating with Him throughout the\u00a0day each day.\u00a0 As I thought about how I would like to experience more of this, I was reminded of two missed opportunities earlier in the\u00a0week.\u00a0 I thought of two separate occasions where I sensed God prompting me to spend time with Him, and I didn’t.\u00a0 It was as if God said, “Rebecca, come sit with me.\u00a0 I want to talk to you,” and I responded, “I can’t right now.\u00a0 I’m too tired.”\u00a0 I wondered why I respond this way because I do want to spend time with Him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then came the insight, the unveiling of my flesh.\u00a0 I was trying to control life to make it work the best way I knew how.\u00a0 I thought that, because I was so tired, the only way I could make it through the evening, or through the next day, was to make sure I got some rest (which is usually by sleeping or watching TV).\u00a0 What God showed me was that if I will let go of my way (I HAVE to rest!), and choose His way (go sit with Him and let Him love on me), He will give me the rest I need and so much more!<\/p>\n
~Rebecca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was reading an article about listening to God this week.\u00a0 It talked about a closeness, an intimacy with God that involved\u00a0communicating with Him throughout the\u00a0day each day.\u00a0 As I thought about how I would like to experience more of this, I was reminded of two missed opportunities earlier in the\u00a0week.\u00a0 I thought of two separate occasions where I sensed God prompting me to spend time with Him, and I didn’t.\u00a0 It was as if God said, “Rebecca, come sit with me.\u00a0 I want to talk to you,” and I responded, “I can’t right now.\u00a0 I’m too tired.”\u00a0 I wondered why I respond this way because I do want to spend time with Him.\u00a0 Then came the insight, the unveiling of my flesh.\u00a0 I was trying to control life to make it work the best way I knew how.\u00a0 I thought that, because I was so tired, the only way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}