Do I really need to rest? This is the Daily Disturbance podcast with Anthony Pangilinan. So much to do, so little time. You've heard this over and over again.
And so with that mindset, do I really need to rest? Well, what's rest to you? If you broaden it, I think you and I will realize we are already doing it. Ginagawa na natin sa ngayon pa lang.
So yung tanong, mali na. What is rest? Pausing. Come on.
Breathing. Still alive. Chilling. Keeping quiet.
Vacationing. Centering. Sleeping. Doing nothing.
Trusting. Entrusting. Being at peace. Nothing moving you.
Psalm 62 verse 2. Of course, we all need one, two, or three of those words in our lives today. You must agree that we need these things. Even my now 10-year-old, for many years now, Solana, you know what she's been most worried about?
Growing up. It stresses her. We are doing it already. You are already resting.
The key, though, is to utilize it more, to maximize it, and of course, the need to strategize for it. Because if you are not careful, often what happens is we do it less and less and less as we wish to accomplish more and more and more. So, utilize, maximize, strategize, and it begins with to internalize. Internalize it as a conviction, as a need.
No longer that question. For many of you, it's actually a command to follow, right? Exodus 28. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Six days work, right? And then seventh day, it's a Sabbath to the Lord. Specifically, it says that you shall not do any work, neither you nor your son, your daughter, male, female, animals, foreigners. It's a time for rest.
In fact, if you look at the Ten Commandments, if you look at the Ten Commandments, it is the longest commandment of the ten. And if God spent time, more time writing it, then maybe that kind of indicates the fact that we should spend more time doing it. If only to honor the process of effort and enjoyment, right? Of staying up and, come on, sleeping.
Of working, the balance of working and having leisure and rest. We have to do it. Elizabeth Elliot, work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary and he gives us hands and strength to do it.
The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest. Just as it is the experience of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. Now, do we need to really rest?
Of course. Be it a 1.8 second pit stop for an F1 car or a one second pause between the question for today, do I really need to rest? And my first statement. Let's try that again.
Let me ask the question. And then afterwards, listen to the jingle and then there's a pause before I come back again. Let's start. Do I really need to rest?
So much to do, so little time. Right? So we see, we need to pause. Even for music.
In music, the silence is actually called rest. And Don Rath reminds us, rests in music allow us the ability to add depth and additional emotions to music through the use of silence. The musical rests also helps to support other tools when creating tension, relieving tension, creating suspension and suspense, and they give us time to catch our breath. Don Rath.
So till tomorrow, find time to rest and catch your breath.