Resting Places
There's rest in work that we faithfully do — not doing and doing just to be doing, and not a waste, rush, and busyness in doing out of worry or anticipation about what life may be like next month or next year: Matthew 6:33-34 . In his autobiography An Uncaged Eagle: True Freedom , Richard Toliver makes mention of his first months at Tuskegee Institute. Away from responsibilities to family at home, each day of class attendance, studying, and other activities was enough responsibility for that day in his life. Young Mr. Toliver wasn't burdened with wasteful tasks anyone thought might prepare him for tomorrow. "Take no thought of the morrow, for the morrow will worry about itself," Jesus says. Each day in this world has enough evil without any of us ruining our own days — putting ourselves through worry about the ability to handle life (money, needed supplies, a new workload) sometime in the future, if at all, the Holy Spirit seems to say in Matthew 6:31-34 .