I spent an hour or so last night writing down lyrics, humming melodies, and coming up with chord progressions to some songs that I’m trying to write, I actually made a lot of progress on a new one and am going to put more focus on finishing it. But after I finished writing for the night, as I was getting ready to go to bed, I felt really refreshed and had a peaceful feeling about me. I wrote a post a few months ago about rest and refreshment. And I think that the great feeling after songwriting last night is a way of God telling me that this is a good thing for me to do to rest, relax, and spend time with God.

The timing of this realization is not a coincidence as the subject of rest and the discipline of taking a Sabbath was brought up during a prayer session Tuesday night. And so here, I post publicly my intention to use songwriting as a way to rest, relax, recharge, and spend time with God. I don’t believe that this is all that I personally need to do to be more faithful and intentional about a time of rest, but I believe that this is definitely a part of it.

So I want to issue a challenge to you, the reader. What’s something that you can do to be more intentional about resting and spending time with God on a consistent basis? Read your Bible more? Spend a certain amount of time every day/week in prayer? Do an activity that you enjoy that calms your spirit? And would you be able to commit to doing that and telling a couple people about it to hold you accountable to it? I encourage you to seek out a way to go about doing this and see how the time you spend with God in a more intimate way affects the rest of your day/week.

Mine involves songwriting. What does yours involve?

Dustin