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August 25





Stress


The alarm clock screams at you at an ungodly hour. Your kids can’t find their socks, won’t look for them and expect you to know where they are. The milk and your husband have something in common … they are both spoiled. He’s upset because he wants to hear “snap, crackle and pop” while he reads the paper. If he mentions the milk one more time you’re fully prepared to give him “snap, crackle and pop!” It won’t be in his cereal bowl.

You look at your watch, “oh no late again.” You rush through your routine, get dressed as fast as you can. “I can’t be late again.” Oh No! Your last pair of hose just got a run. Isn’t that the way it always is?

Dressed in your best jeans, you turn the key in the car. NOTHING! Your car won’t start. What a day, your hose runs and your car won’t!

There’s a note on your desk when you finally arrive to work, the boss wants to see you. “Great, what now?”

Sound familiar? How does a vacation sound to you right now? Where can you find rest when the world is closing in on you? Jesus said: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)


Jim L. Wilson, Fresh Start Devotionals (Fresno, CA: Willow City Press, 2009).

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