Description
This book helps congregations understand how to get quality rest and why it’s important to our physical and spiritual well-being. Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, a board-certified physician specializing in internal medicine, believes quality rest helps people enjoy their daily lives more fully. To provide insight into our need for rest, Dr. Dalton-Smith shares practical aspects of rest based on her medical training and lived experiences. She also outlines different types of rest and the spiritual gifts people receive when they develop practices that help them truly rest.
Features
- Short chapters
- Personal rest-deficit assessment tool
- Thirty-day sacred rest challenge
Recommended Audience
clergy and lay leaders
Cost
Purchase as a book or e-book
Practical Applications
- Develop a spiritual practice of rest in your congregation by hosting a book study and a community of people trying the thirty-day sacred rest challenge.
- Read and reflect on a short chapter each day on your own or with congregational leaders to practice self-care and protect yourself from burnout.