Choosing joy and rest

Bonnie Gray asks:

Is anything really worth enjoying if it can’t last anyway?

This is why joy feels dangerous. Because for some of us, joy is connected to times in our lives where it was taken away or ruined, when a simple moment of happiness was decimated by a person, place, or thing.

Jesus is kind and gentle, never tiring, always longing to whisper in different ways—

You are loved.

You’re worth it.

Just rest.

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

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