Left Pinky Toe

Why oh why does my baby fight so hard against taking a nap, fighting the hardest when she's the most tired?  Doesn't she know that I would cut off my left pinky toe if it would guarantee me at least one nap every day for the rest of my life?

Poor thing has been protesting for almost an hour.  Every so often, she stops her complaining for a moment, and my heart leaps, hoping she's about to give up and rest.  How often do we do the same thing with the Lord?  We cry, complain, and protest at what he's asking us to do for hours on end, finding every excuse in the world not to stop our work and busyness until we're completely exhausted from the effort and we end up resting in Him anyway.  In the end, God still wants us to do exactly what he asked us to in the first place -- REST -- but now we're even more tired than when He first asked.

Better to rest when God gives us the time to do so, I think.  More easily said than done.