PART 1
Others aren't chiming in yet so...here I am again
. Only because this topic is so near and dear to my heart
.
So, as I was saying, people who are resting are content with their life as is. Even within The Body of Christ: they don't need to be blessed every single year or make blessings + miracles happen. The very fact that they have breath in their lungs + get to pray every single day
is the blessing to them.
I once met two very nice ladies at the train station, with huge bags. You could tell they travelled very often, but they had no rest on their face. Their faces looked worn down from worrying but trying to mask it with too much travel + sunbathing as some type of relaxation. When I recounted it to my sister + bil, they laughed so hard. Especially nowadays, with this travel culture. We're constantly bombarded with images that tell us that happiness + rest is...there instead of here.
I've had that mentality before, so I know what I'm talking about. One of the first prayers I made when I moved into my studio apartment was very simple: peace will have to find me here. Not somewhere where I had to spend €500.00+ to get to but right here. As a result, I have not set foot outside of Europe in a decade. You can even see this with women who have this chase + accumulate mentality, especially out here in the Western hemisphere: they chase beauty, career, men, having children, looking like they have it all and so on and so forth. Whereas in other countries, women attract things to themselves and always look peaceful, calm and unbothered.
This is why you can sometimes see a woman who seemingly has it all, but who becomes jealous of a woman who would be deemed...barren on all fronts.