Beth Mason

“Rest is not a place I collapse into when I’ve finally done enough work — it’s the starting place, it’s the way into the well-fitting, easy yoke of Jesus (Matthew 11:25-30). What if we began in rest? Would it be possible to do my work without getting all wound up or collapsing?

Does Jesus seem to you to be all wound up, straining and stressed, as he works? No he’s continually abiding in a place of peace and joy, affirmation and acceptance.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“In the decades before his ministry begins and in the forty wilderness days, Jesus is willing to wait, and his example calls us to cultivate that same posture before the Father.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest

“As I think along these lines, I wonder about those people who have expressed disappointment in their years of busyness—their years of faithfully laboring at what they were told would result in their maturity and spiritual growth, only to find that they were more busy than they were rooted in Christ and growing in him. Such dissatisfaction is evidence that there wasn’t much spiritual life in their efforts.”
― Alan Fadling, An Unhurried Life: Following Jesus' Rhythms of Work and Rest