Ep 58: 1 Day Rest, 6 Days of Tending (scrap work-life balance)
33m | Jun 24, 2026Work-life balance puts work and life in competition. God designed something different: a rhythm.
Episode summary
The phrase 'work-life balance' creates three problems. It turns work into a necessary evil (as if creating isn't part of being human). It makes the rest of life sound effortless (it's all tending). And it puts your creative calling in competition with everything else.
In this episode, Rachel walks through how her family defines what stops on Sabbath (and what doesn't), why moms especially need to redefine what counts as 'work,' and what shifted when work-life balance got replaced with a rhythm of creative stewardship.
Key takeaways
- Work-life balance turns work into something separate from living. But God's directive for humanity was to create, cultivate, and steward. The work is part of being human.
- Every area of your life (body, home, field, tables) requires tending. When we expect the 'life' side to be effortless, we feel like failures when it's hard.
- The biblical rhythm is 1 day of rest, 6 days of tending. Tending means stewarding all four areas. Rest means stopping provision-producing effort and delighting in what's been done.
- The hardest part is defining what 'work' actually is. The question that helps: what creative effort that produces provision can I stop for 24 hours?
- This rhythm produces a stabilizing peace, forces intentional decisions, and removes the guilt of doing your creative work during the six days God gave you to do it.
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