I woke up this morning unhindered by an alarm but accompanied nonetheless with an almost overwhelming feeling that I was behind. My mind was flooded with a list of things I should be doing. I recognized an immediate response of wanting to the pull the covers back over my head. Instead, His voice assured me that these expectations were mine, not His. He comforted me with the thought that He was for me and whether or not I completed any of those tasks, He was pleased to call me His own. James 4:1-3 says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.” Today, I choose not to quarrel with myself, but to instead rest in His perfect love ...