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 “Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, He said to them, ‘Come with Me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest’.”  Mark 6:31Mark 6:31
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31 He said to them, “You come apart into a deserted place, and rest awhile.” For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

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Boy, does that ever sound good to me, Lord! Lately the pace of life seems to have stepped up at least a dozen notches. I’m surrounded by people, all of whom want something from me. And dramas! Murphy’s Law is a teddy bears’ picnic compared to my life at the moment. I know what a balloon feels like – I feel like I’m stretched to breaking point, and any moment now I’m going to pop.

The thought of a quiet place is so nice. Just give me a nice shady palm tree on a white-sand beach on a deserted island, with nobody within at least a thousand kilometer radius of me; and let me sleep for at least a month.

But I really don’t get it, Lord. Instead of a quiet place where they could rest, when the disciples arrived at the other side of the lake, they found themselves in the middle of wall-to-wall people, all of them desperate for food, both the natural kind and the spiritual. What happened there, Jesus? Was Your omniscience not working that day? Surely You knew what awaited them when You invited them to come away and rest? Surely You knew that they were not going to a palm tree on a beach, but to more people and more demands. Were You just teasing them? Surely not! – I know You’re just not like that. So what was Your point?

You promised them a place of quiet and rest, and You don’t make promises you don’t intend to keep. So I guess You must have been thinking of something other than the physical place where they were going to land. Were You talking about somewhere inside of them, a place that’s always quiet and peaceful no matter how many dramas and demands are milling about on the outside?

You know, Lord, that sounds even better than a palm tree on a deserted beach. Help me to find that quiet place inside with You.