Pumpkins and Promises: Come and Rest
Over the next 2 weeks, we’re going to be sharing some fun fall-themed recipes as well as some reflections on the Promises of God. We pray you’ll be encouraged and inspired. PROMISE 1: Rest for your soul Matthew 11:28-30 I held my darling boy, or at least attempted to, but he was writhing and thrashing around in exhaustion and pain. All I wanted to do was make it stop, but as he screamed in pain, my feeble efforts to sing him to sleep were utterly futile. I found myself weeping with him....I had done all I knew to do and he was in agony. I became frightened by his intensity. Did I need to take him to the ER? What was so wrong? Why couldn't he rest? I begged God to calm him, to take away the pain. Then, I tried, once more to nurse him. For whatever reason, he latched, he soothed, and finally he rested. I sat there enjoying my sleeping darling for hours afterwards. The peace was almost tangible. How often are our hearts frantic and overwrought with stre...