Are You Creating Rhythms of Rest in Your Home? Here’s Why You Need To
By Movieguide® Contributor
Candace Cameron Bure and Dr. Josh and Christi Straub recently shared the importance of establishing rhythms in the home.
“I think rhythm is possible. I don’t know that balance is,” Christi said while appearing on “The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.” “If you tried to balance everything, it would require everyone to stay still. It’s not possible. And so this concept of rhythms has been really life-giving because it does give you these sort of building blocks.”
Bure agreed, saying, “You can do it all — just not at the same time.”
She referred to her 2014 book, Balancing It All: My Story of Juggling Priorities and Purpose, which shares Bure’s tips for figuring out how to juggle everything.
“I had to realize my life is unique and I stopped trying to fit my life into the box of normal,” she said in an interview about the book with OK! “I realized my life wouldn’t be normal. I don’t know there’s a definition of normal for anyone. I think normal is a definition of what your life is, but it doesn’t have to look like other people’s. When you throw that out it will give you relief to know it’s okay for your life to look different than other people’s.”
Continuing the podcast discussion, Bure said, “You’ve got to put something down at some point…but the great thing is, you can always pick them back up at another time.”
Josh spoke about the benefits that rhythms have brought to their own family, saying their kids “thrive on routine [and] knowing what’s coming.”
He pointed to the story of creation, where God created the pattern of the week — including a day of rest.
“You look at this rhythm and you go, we were designed for rest, not to work from it,” Josh explained. “We were designed to live from rest, not for it. But yet we live in a culture that is just, like, go, go, go, go.”
He and Christi emphasized the importance of using Sunday as a day of rest.
“Every day [in the book of Genesis], He ends in celebration of what He created,” Josh said. “And I think if we could imagine ourselves ending — even the end of this day — and look back and go, ‘Let’s celebrate what we created together today’…instead of second-guessing, you go, ‘You know what, God, I trust you with what we put out. Thank you for allowing me the ability to create it.’”
Creating rhythms that provide time to rest and slow down is a cornerstone of the Straubs’ parenting philosophy.
In a recent Instagram post, Josh wrote, “I was in a store yesterday with my daughter and she said, ‘Dad, why are we rushing?’ It reminded me of a phrase I felt the Lord download to me a few months ago that I was living by, but somehow forgot of late, ‘The urgency is over.’”
“Think of everything you miss out on when you rush through life,” he continued. “It’s no wonder we’re short with loved ones, longing for rest, and frustrated we don’t hear from God. We weren’t designed to live this way. Be at peace.”
Movieguide® previously reported on the parenting advice the Straubs have been sharing in Season 7 of THE CANDACE CAMERON BURE PODCAST:
Candace Cameron Bure is helping moms confidently step into motherhood with God’s help.
Bure told Dr. Josh and Christi Straub about how, as a young mom, she struggled with balancing motherhood with other aspects of her life.
“I had been selfish my whole life. I’d only thought about myself. My career, my marriage, my, my everything. And now I’m like, I have a child and now my child comes first,” she explained.
Josh chimed in, saying, “As our kids get older, we want to help them find who they are, What’s God created them to be, who’s he created, what’s their gifts? What’s their strengths, what’s their talents? And then yet here we are, and I’m hearing you two as moms wrestling, and I see this all the time, wrestling with your own identity.”
Straub explained how even when we are doing what God has asked us to do, it can still feel new and uncomfortable.
“It’s like, oh my goodness, this is what God’s called me to do, and I’ve been doing it, but now I’m sitting here, and I’m hidden, and I don’t feel seen. And I think having the confidence of stepping in and realizing this is a beautiful role. This is a, I mean, we’re shepherding the hearts of children,” he added.
In a world with so much darkness, Straub says instead of overprotecting our children, we need to prepare them to handle what they’re going to face.
“They’re going to step out into the world, and they’re going to be met with all kinds of stuff flying at them. And I want them to be resilient. I want them to be able. So, if we’re protecting them, that’s not, that’s actually not safe for my children,” he explained. “What’s safe for my children is that they learn to be emotionally resilient. That they learn to be able to tackle all of the stuff that’s coming at them in the world around them.”
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