For many of us, we view an invitation to rest as a nice thought but hardly available or realistic. Rest feels like a luxury that busy people can scarcely afford. We excuse it away by saying, “You don’t know my schedule or the demands on my time.” Ultimately, we will rest when we believe things are under control or under our control, to be more specific. We tend to think of rest as a means to an end. Rest allows us to do what we do; rest enables us to keep going. As long as we go where we desire to go and nothing changes or accelerates, we are fine. But, what inevitably happens is that rest becomes a survival function, and the lack of available rest undermines our peace and creates chaos in every relationship and circumstance. We treat rest as a means to an end, but true rest depends on something other than our awareness that we need rest. Rest is a by-product. But, a result of what?