So Tired....

     All I can do is yawn right now.  Usually it doesn't bother me.  Today it does though.  I have not done much to be tired.  Due to lovely snowfall in NC, I have been confined to the four walls of my apartment reduced to do nothing much other than play on the computer and watch TV.  I probably could have cleaned, but I have been too lazy.  

     Sure we all grow tired of many things in life.  I often grow tired of people who can't drive normally resulting in my screaming at people in a fit from road rage.  I get tired of going to work every day just to be  going through the motions to get a pay check.  Something else I have grown tired of is plain stupidity and people not wanting to better themselves because it's the "southern way" or because people are just close minded in general. (no offense to any one living in the south)

     In a sense there are plenty things we grow tired of.  But are we truly tired?  Have we truly worked toward something with all of our being to say that we actually "worked" for it.  Do we have true reasons to be tired of something?  I know it's a common statement that we all make.  "I'm tired of this.  I'm tired of that."

     I also think of the mother who stays up until 3:00 in the morning with her baby knowing that she has to be to work in two hours.  How tired she will be during the day.  A man goes to work and takes all of his grief from home with him knowing that his wife could just leave him when she very well pleased.  How mentally exhausting and tired he will be during the day.  A family has lost a loved one, spending their nights crying out in agony because that person has gone from this world.  How tired they will be for months to come.  There are many more descriptions that can fit this.  Many people today are truly tired because of stress, emotional fatigue, and heart break.  I would know.  I have been there many times.

     So I guess the best thing for me to say is that tonight I am not tired.  I am just a little on the sleepy side.  And when I grow sleepy, I know that a few hours of rest can get me right back up on my feet.  I know that I can put my trust in God and he will give me rest as well.  Not just physically, but mentally and spiritually.  Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."  This is a true assurance knowing that when I am truly tired (not agitated or frustrated) that I will find the rest that I need in Jesus.  

     Until next time, let our revolutions around the sun be prosperous ones.  For now this is life as I know it.  Or at least I think.......