Recently, I was journaling and asking God what on earth this season was all about! He dropped the word FALLOW into my heart. Not being one who knows these things, I turned to Google to find out what that meant. I was not happy with the answer. This year was meant to be about being fruitful and this seemed like the absolute opposite. As I read on though, it began to come clear to me that this was a hope-fulled word and good for this season. It didn’t take away from ‘fruitful’, it added to it.
I am not good at ‘fallow’. I am learning, I am taking steps in obedience, and also in grace, (because I forget a lot that its what I should be doing!). At the same time, I had the word ‘saturate’. This has helped shape what ‘fallow’ means for me (otherwise I’d have been halfway through the entire Netflix library by now!). This week I am letting go of TV completely, to honour this season, to fallow, to saturate, to rest.
A couple of months ago, I took part in a writing workshop, we were given the prompt “I Promise” and I wrote from that place. It’s not what I wanted to write, I tried to push the notion of the first sentence away – surely I could write something more profound. And yet, from the heart, the mouth speaks, and the pen writes. So when I could fight it no more the arrows were set free to fly…
I reread that today. I still have a long way to go, but I am on a learning journey, both about myself and the culture that shapes me.
This week I received my Blurt BuddyBox! Its theme was to ‘invest in rest’. In this season, whilst I fallow & saturate, this was the perfect gift to receive, to teach me to rest.
How are you resting in this season? Let me know in the comments?
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