Tonight is not a business meeting. I want you to come with your beverage of choice. Whether that is water, tea, a cold ginger ale, or a glass of wine. I just want you to come as you are. Come tired if you need to. Come quiet if that is where you are. But just come! Because tonight I want to give you something that I had to receive for myself first. Permission to rest. A couple of days ago, someone said something that I have not been able to shake. In order to maximize, you must minimize. I sat with that. And then I looked at the last few months of my life. Twelve weeks of curriculum. Birthday parties. Anniversaries. Mother's Day. Father's Day. Hosting family. Celebrating. Running. Showing up. And doing it all while trying to build something meaningful in the margins. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, I started hearing something quiet from the Holy Spirit. Not loud. Just a whisper. Rest. You are not available for that. Cancel that meeting. Reschedule that appointment. I kept hearing it, and honestly I kept moving past it. And then during a session where we were deciding how much time to give the community between the Q1 and Q2 curriculum, our community manager Victoria said four words that stopped me in my tracks. "Just take the month off." I n that moment, something in me exhaled. Not going to lie, I wrestled with it. What it would look like from the outside. What it would mean for this community. Then I realized it did not mean changing the vision. It was permission to better steward the vision in a way that would allow me to also benefit from what God is calling me to build for you. Because what God is getting ready to do in the next season requires me to be full, not running on empty. And full requires rest. Real rest. Intentional rest. The kind that actually prepares you for what is next. So tonight I want to extend that same permission to you. For the next four weeks, we are not dropping new lessons. We are not adding anything to your plate. We are giving you space. Space to finish what you started. Space to breathe. Space to hear God more clearly without the noise of keeping up.