🕯 THE STILL POINT #11

The Courage to Be Unproductive

The Courage to Be Unproductive

There’s a subtle pressure Jesus never seemed to obey.
The pressure to prove usefulness.

Crowds wanted more.
Miracles. Teaching. Action.

And still, He rested.

I’ve been noticing how easily worth slips into output.
Days feel “good” when something gets done.
Less so when they don’t.

Yet Jesus’ identity was settled before His work began.
“You are my beloved.”
That came before achievement.

Unproductivity exposes what we’re leaning on.
If nothing gets done, who am I then?

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That question can feel unsettling.
But it’s also clarifying.

Jesus wasn’t anxious about pauses.
He trusted that fruit comes from abiding, not striving.

Sometimes rest feels like laziness
only because we’ve confused motion with meaning.

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Perhaps today’s invitation
is not to justify your pace.

But to notice what surfaces
when there’s nothing to show.

Who are you
when the to-do list stays unfinished?

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