Why am I so stinkin' tired?

I love work, and I love my job.  I actually don't even really mind getting up early, but holy cow could the weekend just hurry up and get here please?!?  I have a whole lot of sleeping in planned for Saturday and will probably throw some naps into the weekend mix as well.

I've been thinking a lot about this verse lately "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28  I seem to be missing out on this rest thing a lot and I've really got the whole weary thing down.  I know I'm not alone in this, but I really don't know why we so often choose weariness over rest.  I guess it almost seems to me that work is so deeply ingrained in our culture that we/I don't feel worthy of rest until I've worked really hard to get there.  Instead of coming to Jesus, resting and trusting Him to guide my steps, I run around like a crazy person trying to work my way to earning God's love and finally one day feeling like I deserve to take a rest.  God's way is so counter-intuitive though - earning isn't part of the plan and rest is almost a side-effect of the work you are doing when you're walking with Jesus.  Oh that I could walk with Him that closely - that my work really was rest.  And that my rest was true rest....like this little guy (Thanks to Liz for the photography!):

I was reading in Luke this morning when Jesus says we should come to Him like little children.  I think this is partly what He was talking about.  We often talk about the faith aspect of it - having faith like I child, which i know is part of it too, but kids know how to rest.  Especially the little babies like Daniel (above).  When they are in the arms of someone they trust, they are often so at ease they just fall asleep.  I know this is not true for all babies, so I'll admit it's a bit of a generalization.  However, I do think it paints a good picture of how at ease we should be with God holding us.  


For me, getting more rest is probably also a matter of being more careful with how I spend my time.  For example, staying up late to catch up on SYTYCD last night was probably not the best use of my time when I was already so tired.  (BTW - thoughts on who's going home tonight??)  


It's a journey :-)