“God does not coerce us to follow Him. He invites us… He tells us what to do, and we find our happiness in doing it. We will not find it anywhere else. We will not find it by doing only what we want to do and not doing what we don’t want to do. That is the popular idea of what freedom is, but it does not work. Freedom lies in keeping the rules” (1).
I was pondering this whole concept of self-care yesterday on my solitary evening walk. Pondering it because there was a more-than-slight twinge of guilt about my own self-caring attitude.
Just that afternoon, my husband and I had been talking about our plans for the week and I was quick to clarify that my evening walk was important and had to be fit in, that I needed it, that it mattered just as much as his morning bike ride. Well, does it? Is it important, should it be fit in, do I need it, does it matter?
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