Chrystal Hurst uses the spinning top from Inception to show how constant hustle keeps you trapped in a false reality. Your body keeps score, she says. Real living requires Sabbath, rest, and intentional slowing down, not endless doing.
Have you seen the movie Inception? If not, you should go and watch it today. It's one of the best movies that's ever been made. The idea is that you're in a dream where you're in a dream where you're in a dream and you can't get out of the dream that's in the dream that's in the dream. It's really weird, I know. If you haven't seen it, go watch it. But here's the thing you need to know. If you want to know in this movie if you're in a dream, the main character spins a top. And if the top keeps spinning without falling down, he knows he's in a dream because tops eventually fall down. If the top eventually toppled and then fell and went into a position of rest, the main character would know he was in real life. Let me tell you something, if you're going to live a real good life, every now and then you need to stop spinning. Every now and then that top needs to be in a restful position. If you find that you are always spinning, always moving, always producing, always doing the most, if you are always living a life of hustle, you are living in a dream that that will not affect your body. You are living dream that that won't affect your mind, that it won't affect your relationships, and that it is not the way God wants you to live. So stop dreaming, stop spinning, stop agreeing with hustle culture, and every now and then just take a chill pill. Now listen, this is hard for me to say, y'all, because I love doing the most. On most days, I'm probably looking more like a Martha than I am a Mary. But here's what I've learned: the body does keep score, and sometimes the body will tell you no. And you don't want to wait until your body makes you lie down. You want to lie down because that's what God said. He said take a Sabbath. He said lie down in green pastures. And if you're doing the most, let me encourage you today to just slow down a little bit, lay down, take a nap, and rest.
