Our Lord sees how very confused we are about rest and work; how backwards our understanding of life, both here and beyond the grave.

Jesus did not die and rise again in order that we might kill ourselves with busyness and deep unrest in this world – and then sit uselessly on clouds forever after. He gave himself that we might begin to experience now what we’ll know in fullness later. He came to give each of us an abundantly fruitful, forever life, lived from a place of rest.

Quoted from chapter 11 of Return to Your Rest: A Spirit-to-spirit Journey, © 2016, 2019 Deborah P Brunt.

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