Canadian Personal Finance Blog

The Lord Jesus Christ said, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

So I learned a while back about the importance of rest, in all it’s forms. I was working far too long hours,worried about money, and not worrying much about my spirit or myself. I was sitting on the couch feeling burnt watching TV when suddenly my eyesight became a little blurry, then it seemed like a “ball” was lifting my field of vision, causing a bulge in the middle of it (if you have seen computer graphics, or screen savers that do this, you’ll kind of understand what I was seeing). I freaked out, what the heck was going on? My eyesight continued to be distorted for about an hour, and it finally went away. I talked to my optometrist and my doctor and they told me that I had an ocular migrane (I didn’t have any pain, just distortion). They asked me:

• Are you under stress?
• Are you drinking a lot of caffeine?
• Are you not getting enough sleep?

When I answered yes, and they saw the bags under my eyes, they told me this condition would reoccur, unless I relaxed and took time off. I managed to extricate myself from the stressful job, and cut down on the coffee, got some sleep, and made sure I got back into the life of my Church by working there and helping out.

Rest, you can’t worry about money all the time, sometimes you have to give yourself a break. –C8j