If you've been following my blog for any length of time, you'll see a common theme emerging - the idea of rest, and what it has and hasn't meant to me over the years (see examples here and here). At the beginning of the year I wrestled a lot with how to even go about resting. My friend Chelsea and I spent hours mulling over what it looks like to have a healthy work/life balance, and keep Jesus at the center of it all.

These times were so good for my heart, because they forced me to sit down and really think about everything. But then the busy season hit, and there were just a lot of things I had to do. From editing to blogging to personal things like filling out mounds of paperwork for our adoption, rest wasn't my top priority, and in a lot of ways it couldn't be.