Sometimes you just need a day away from the hustle and bustle of every day life, a day that when all that is going on, you can just sit and hide from it all. In college, we referred to those kinds of days as 'mental health days', but now that I am actively working in a field that works with people dealing with mental health and illnesses, I refer to them as 'Rejuvenating ME days'.
Today, I had one of those. While finding myself with 8+ hours of unscheduled time, I flipped through ideas of what to do. Should I go shopping, a visit to Biltmore, maybe a random mountain adventure, or to organize my room, do laundry, oh the choices I searched through, but ultimately I wanted to just sit. Sit and play games, lay in the beauty of the sun, simply be. I needed to not do those things that I should do, or things that exerted energy, but rather things that were mind relaxing, body relaxing and soul relaxing.
Tonight, I feel almost like a new person. Rejuvenated. Fighting the temptation to plan my whole week out, cause I am trying to use the last little bit of this day to finish relaxing. But life needs to feel like this, feeling like I can actually take on the world, instead of feeling like the world is taking me on.
As a child of God, we are lead down a trail that we do not always know where we are going or what we are going to run into in the process. Choosing to give my life to God, and devoting all my choices to be driven by him, leaves me often questioning my daily walk, but a childhood story book that I loved many years ago and still do, helps me look at my daily walk with God in another way. While the book, Going On a Bear Hunt, has nothing to do with God, there is a section that I would like to share and reflect with.
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Oh-oh! Grass! Long, wavy grass.
We can't go over it. We can't go under it.
Oh! We've got to go through it.
Swishy swashy! Swishy swashy! Swishy swashy!
Oh-oh! A river! A deep, cold river.
We can't go over it. We can't go under it.
Oh! We've got to go through it.
Splash splosh! Splash splosh! Splash splosh!
Oh-oh! Mud! Thick, oozy mud!
We can't go over it. We can't go under it.
Oh! We've got to go through it.
Squelch squerch! Squelch squerch! Squelch squerch!
Oh-oh! A forest! A big, dark forest!
We can't go over it. We can't go under it.
Oh! We've got to go through it.
Stumble trip! Stumble trip! Stumble trip!
Oh-oh! A snowstorm! A swirling, whirling snowstorm!
We can't go over it. We can't go under it.
Oh! We've got to go through it.
Hoooo wooo! Hoooo wooo! Hoooo wooo!
Oh-oh! A cave! A narrow, gloomy cave!
We can't go over it. We can't go under it.
Oh! We've got to go through it.
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God, has a plan for each of us! In the daily life with Christ, we face tall grass, deep rivers, thick mud, dark forests, snowstorms and gloomy caves. These are tests of our faith or lessons that God is teaching us. Instead of loosing faith and focus, we need to remind ourselves that God is the leader and he will lead us through these moments. Take a day or half a day for a rejuvenating ME day. We all need to remember to take time for ourselves, we need to care for the creation of ourselves that God granted us with. So I encourage everyone to take a Rejuvenating ME day and push through the daily struggles to walk God's path!
