{"id":5401,"date":"2014-10-08T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T21:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2014-10-09T06:55:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T12:55:26","slug":"soul-vitamin-rest-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"Soul Vitamin – Rest (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Soul<\/p>\n

I\u2019m so excited to start up this Soul Vitamin section\u2026I feel like there are so many stories (i.e. lessons) that I have had happen to me in the last year. I just keep learning\u2026and growing. It\u2019s fun to actually start sharing more of my life and what\u2019s happening here\u2026<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, I was<\/p>\n

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sitting in church and I found myself writing a list.<\/p>\n

I stopped paying attention to whatever was happening at the time, and absorbed myself in scribbling. I was tired\u2026more than tired\u2026I was exhausted. I knew something had to change.<\/p>\n

If you know me, you\u2019ll understand that I\u2019m a huge people person. Honestly, I\u2019m the most extroverted person I know. And I know a lot of people. I get energy from people\u2026not from rest or alone time. My thought process when I felt tired at 10 at night was not \u201cI\u2019m going to bed because I\u2019m sleepy\u201d\u2026it was \u201cI\u2019m tired, I\u2019m going to spend some time with people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes. Actually.<\/p>\n

This all started over a year ago. I decided sleep was a waste of time when I could easily get the same energy from people (yes, a ridiculous notion<\/i>), so I cut down my sleeping hours and explored polyphasic style sleeping<\/a> (don\u2019t do it!).<\/i> I became obsessed with this crazy lifestyle and began to sleep only 2-5 (mostly around 4hrs) a night. I did this consistently for a year.<\/p>\n

When people complained to me of a night where they only had 5 hours or told me of how exhausted they\u00a0 were, I\u2019d nod and say, \u201cMan, that\u2019s rough\u201d\u2026but inwardly, I was rolling my eyes. I had slept three hours that night and two the night before\u2026weeks on end\u2026and I didn\u2019t understand. I just thought people were weak. I thought sleep was weakness. And I felt like I was thriving. Stupid, right?<\/p>\n

\"photo<\/p>\n

Ten months into this, I started getting pretty narcoleptic. My motivation and inspiration was low (a big part of why I didn’t blog) and I found myself dozing at the worst times. I fell asleep on the bathroom floor, the doctor\u2019s office, a furniture store, a restaurant\u2026you get the picture.<\/p>\n

\"Tea<\/p>\n

I told you my life was crazy.<\/p>\n

Two months ago, God got my attention. Guess what Charissa?! You\u2019re not invincible.<\/p>\n

He also used this verse\u2026<\/p>\n

Psalm 127:2 \u201cIt is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives sleep to his beloved.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

For some reason, I didn\u2019t think sleep was something God cared about\u2026especially since I was using my extra time to reach out to people. Guys\u2026God cares about taking care of you. He cares about sleep.<\/p>\n

In fact, in this verse Jesus realizes that His friends were tired because of being with people and told them to go have a rest!<\/p>\n

Mark 6:31 \u201cThen, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, \u201cCome with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Truth.<\/p>\n

\"He<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a lie that we need to busy all the time\u2026or even take care of other people constantly. Go have a nap.<\/p>\n

Then you have more to give later.<\/p>\n

Thoughts? How do you find balance in this area? Any stories?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Because rest is something I\u2019ve been learning a lot about lately (physically and spiritually), there will be more coming! This is something key that I think is super relevant to our \u201calways busy\u201d culture. I\u2019m looking forward to more discussion!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m so excited to start up this Soul Vitamin section\u2026I feel like there are so many stories (i.e. lessons) that I have had happen to me in the last year. I just keep learning\u2026and growing. It\u2019s fun to actually start sharing more of my life and what\u2019s happening here\u2026 A few weeks ago, I was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}