On Labor Day weekend, Rev. Rhoda Howell asks a question most of us avoid: how is your holy rest? Drawing on the creation story in Genesis, where God rests on the seventh day, and Jesus's invitation in Matthew to bring our burdens and find rest, Rhoda unpacks what rest actually means beyond sleep and time off. It is not the absence of busyness, but the intentional practice of meeting God in prayer, silence, and devotion.

Through the image of a farmer's yoked horses, who move at a measured pace because they are never working alone, Rhoda explores what it looks like to be yoked with God rather than running ahead trying to fix everything ourselves. With warmth, humor, and hard-won honesty about her own struggles with to-do lists and noise, this sermon is an invitation to rediscover the kind of rest that restores the soul, not just the body.