I read this online article.  Color me wary.
 

Clean Your House In 19 Minutes

By Real Simple  With a plan of attack, you can maintain a sparkling house in just 19 minutes a day
Kitchen, 4 1/2 minutes daily
Always start with the sink. A sparkling sink becomes your kitchen’s benchmark for hygiene and tidiness, inspiring you to load [...]

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Labor Day is a day off for the working citizens of America.   Stop working.   I mean it.   Cease.   Stop it!   Quit working right now!   This is a fedreally mandated day off, for crying out loud!   Plus, God wants you to enjoy time off, too.
Jesus, as quoted in Matthew [...]

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That post title, my friends, was just one of the amazing “thought-questions”posed  in Mark Batterson’s upcoming tome.
I put aside both of the books I had been reading and skipped over the one I was suppose to start next to read a pre-released copy of Batterson’s Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God.   [...]

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I promise not to update every stinking day…
But I just wanted to tell you how beautiful and sweet and restorative last night was.   It was the kick-off to our 40 Nights of Prayer and Worship leading up to Heaven Fest.   The sound system was set up on the veranda outside the cafe at [...]

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"My great Aunt Jennifer ate a whole box of candy everyday of her life.  She lived to be a hundred and two and when she'd been dead for 3 days, she looked better than you do right now." - the critic in the 1942 black and white movie, "The Man Who Came to Dinner" to [...]

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Work 6 days, rest 1…work 6 days, rest 1…work 6, rest 1…work 6, rest 1…
What is so stinking hard about that?  Why is this the commandment we not only break regularly, but with great pride?  "Oh, I am so swamped…I am soooo busy…I have this going and that going and - and - and…"  And we are [...]

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When I was a kid, growing up in a pastor's home, we had really funny ideas about Sunday.  One was that it was "the Sabbath," sometimes called a "day of rest," and the other that it was to be set apart and be really different from other days of the week.
The reason both ideas were [...]

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Last summer I attended the very first partners and prayer support team meeting for the fledgling Worship and the Word Movement  ministry in which my son-in-law, Dave, and daughter, Tara, were embarking.  God has opened all sorts of doors for them in the ensuing year.  In 2 days, they leave for Orlando, where they will [...]

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Sleep.  Rest.  Be at peace. 
God can handle everything without you - really He can.
Be blessed, Jeanie
NOTE TO SELF: "Here's an activity that I recommend: Find a shaft of sunlight, curl up in the puddle of its warmth and nap with doglike dereliction." - Scrap of paper I once tore from a newspaper

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It is good to rest through sleep because:

If you don't, you will have increased anxiety and breathlessness causing sleep apnea meaning you won't even be able to sleep (a vicious cycle)
Without it, your memory will be impaired and your cognitive performance weakened
It is anti-aging.  When you sleep, your body is resting, repairing and regenerating itself [...]

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