Recovering Heart

Hey Everyone!  I hope you all enjoyed the first post on this new series. I definitely enjoyed writing it and I hope it led to acknowledging your own need for rest. But it's not enough for us to stop at acknowledgment - change and action are needed.  When I was at my busiest and weakest, I noticed a few things about myself that I didn't like. I looked horrible! I was losing hair, I was breaking out in acne and my eczema would flare up. I didn't have enough sleep and grew designer bags under my eyes. I was not taking care of myself, I looked horrible and I was exhausted. I'm sure a lot of you can relate.  Without rest, we become monsters. We try to cover all these things with make up, drink more coffee, and put on a smile more often just to convince ourselves we still got it. But we all know it's not sustainable. We all know that it's not helping us. It won't grow us.  Even though I am a pastor's kid, I never knew or understood the importance of the Sabbat...

Hey everyone!  It's been a couple of minutes since the last post and I'm back! Super excited to be sharing on rest for the next few weeks and how God was speaking to me in this season.  The title of this new series is called "Intentional Rest". This whole idea sounds very contradictory. How can you do rest intentionally? How do you put effort into resting? Doesn't rest mean doing nothing? Why do I need to do it intentionally?  Like everyone else this year, my summer plans have been cancelled thanks to COVID-19. I was originally going to Australia for an immersion experience and I was really excited for it. I've waited for almost 3 years for this to happen. Honestly, it was one of the reasons why I choose to study English and Education.  I was really looking forward to this trip because I saw it as an opportunity for me to rest and have a little bit of an escape from life in Hong Kong. Over the past year, Hong Kong has gone through hardships and challenges and ...