In her book, Present Over Perfect, Shauna Niequist talks about “fake rest ” and oh am I ever guilty of this.
You know, everyone else is napping on Sunday afternoon and instead of napping yourself you decide to take care of business: catch up on laundry, clean the bathrooms, unload and reload the dishwasher, make cookies. After all those tasks are taken care of you fall out on the couch for a quick nap before running to the next activity because guess what, you’re exhausted.
Or it’s just me?
I fake rest instead of allowing myself to really rest because I’m trying to do it all and be it all when God – or my family – has never asked me for that.