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The story has to do with the season I’m in. Part of what I’m going through is learning more how to live from a place of rest and readiness.
This helps to minimize rushing, by a lot!
How?
I think that when you’re ready, you can rest. And when you can live from a place of rest, you can act, move, with a confidence and peace that is stabilizing and bold.
Rushing happens because of procrastination, worry, anxiousness, sin, unpreparedness, and fear.
Rest is not physical laziness. Rest is staying centered in faith, love, and hope with your father. An intimate embrace of relationship, where you are daily operating from the who you are and whose you are, rather than the what you do. It’s fiercely remained in the Father. 
This season has been one of increased responsibilities. One of which is speaking in front of missionaries on the field, coming off the field, or going onto the field brand new. It’s such a great privilege to be used by God in this way. I’ve put in almost 3 years into the World Race program, so I can say I’ve learned a thing or two about this journey. Now I get to be the one that imparts to current racers. 
But if I speak from a place of rushing, the one’s that lose out are the people. If I speak from a place of rest in the Father, then I’m a ready vessel. He knows he has my attention. It’s not elsewhere, or flustered. It’s ready. 
The greater the responsibility given, I truly believe the greater the degree of rest is needed. (Again, not just physical rest). A deep intimate remaining in the Father and the Father in me. 
Whether speaking in front of many, or conversing with one. The ability to be present in that moment, not swayed by distractions or events, or lack of personal readiness, results in the ability to be fully given of in that moment. 
So the past few months, have I done this really well…no, not always. I have seen a few lingering signs of the night of my prom. And I’m the first to recognize the rushing factor spring up. But there’s times where I have been operating well from rest and readiness. And it’s so sweet. 
So thank you Prom date, for exposing this in me. And thank you current Missionaries, for allowing me to grow even more in operating out of resting, not rushing. I hope to grow even more. 



“On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, “Let us go across to the other side.” And leaving the crowd, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. And other boats were with him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking into the boat, so that the boat was already filling. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.”

Mark 4