{"id":3576,"date":"2024-04-16T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/js1cd06kre.onrocket.site\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2024-04-16T10:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T14:27:17","slug":"aint-you-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/16\/aint-you-tired\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain’t You Tired?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, <\/em>click here<\/a>

The 2012 film The Help <\/em>depicts life in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 \u2013 particularly the intersecting worlds of the black women (\u201cthe help\u201d) who work as maids, cooks, and child caregivers and the white women whose households they serve.

Hilly Holbrook, one of the housewives, is an angry, self-absorbed, manipulative racist.    

She haughtily confronts Aibileen Clark (played by Viola Davis), who is her friend Elizabeth\u2019s maid. 

Hilly threatens to accuse her of stealing the silver.  \u201cCall the police,\u201d she says to Elizabeth.  That will put this maid in her place.

Aibileen, who is a wise, spiritual woman, has finally had enough.  She gets in Hilly\u2019s face.  \u201cAll you do is scare and lie and try to get what you want,\u201d she says.  \u201cYou a godless woman\u201d \u2013 probably the deepest insult she could possibly make.

Then she speaks the most important words in the movie: \u201cAin\u2019t you tired, Miss Hilly?\u201d  Pause. \u201cAin\u2019t you tired?\u201d<\/em>

It\u2019s a defiant question. 
It\u2019s also a loving question. 

And it\u2019s a question we need to wrestle with every day. 

Ain\u2019t you tired?<\/em>

Tired of always trying to look like the smartest person in the room?
Tired of always having to be right?
Tired of always trying to get the last word?
Tired of always trying to be in control?
Tired of always trying to be the center of attention?
Tired of judging other people and throwing shadows on their accomplishments?
Tired of always trying to look like a hero?
Tired of trying to be as good as good can be to impress God, even though God has already made it abundantly clear that there\u2019s nothing you can do to make him love you more?

When we\u2019re tired of being tired, there\u2019s hope we will finally listen to Someone beyond ourselves. 

\u201cCome to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest,\u201d Jesus says in Matthew 11:28. 

When we\u2019re tired of being tired, trusting him is our best hope of sleeping soundly this very night.
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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The 2012 film The Help depicts life in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 \u2013 particularly the intersecting worlds of the black women (\u201cthe help\u201d) who work as maids, cooks, and child caregivers and the white women whose households they serve. Hilly Holbrook, one of the housewives, is an angry, self-absorbed, manipulative racist. … Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[523,715],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-control","tag-weariness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}