I often write about resting. The rest I’m referring to is more than naps and even more than not doing anything. It is an inner sense of trust in something bigger than ourselves. It’s an experience of being carried, enveloped in love, guided…the real sense that we are not alone.
It’s not that we don’t do anything when we are truly resting; actually, many times, a lot more seems to get done. When we are truly resting, the doing is done through us; we become the beholder of what is being done rather than the doer, which is glorious!
It’s more than this, though; it feels like a heavy weight is lifted from deep within…a weight of responsibility that was never yours to carry.
Giving ourselves permission to rest is far from self-indulgence or laziness; it allows a weary world to lay down burdens that we often aren’t even aware we are carrying. What we do for ourselves, we do in service to all.
Princess Sassy Pants & Co.™ 
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I was caregiver for my husband as he was dying from COPD. It wasn’t hard enough to have to do this (out of much love) but then add in his negative mother, who refused to do anything for herself and expected me to care for her needs as well. She was quite capable and lived with us. It made it so much harder to tell her that I had to focus on her son’s care and listen to her pout, yell and toss things across the room out of anger that I couldn’t address her first. Getting her hair washed, doing her laundry, taking her to the casino or to play bingo, get her a pizza, on and on it went. When he died, I had nothing left, absolutely nothing and yet her other two sons, who were pretty much absent in the help department during that whole time, told me that I wasn’t off the hook, they expected me to continue to look after her. At that point I was beyond done, very ill myself with MRSA and just wanted peace. I moved away to regain what was left of my sanity.
It is said that you can’t pour from an empty cup. It’s true.
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