I'm drowning. Everyone needs something and there's nothing left.

When everyone needs something, stopping feels like the one thing you are not allowed to do. But the instruction here is a single word — come — given to people already carrying too much, not to people who had earned a break. Rest was never the reward at the end. It was the invitation at the start.

The conversation

The child: “Daddy God, I'm drowning. Everyone needs something and there's nothing left.”

God: “I never put all of it on you. Some you picked up. Some others placed there.”

The child: “But people depend on me.”

God: “'Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'”

God: “The invitation isn't 'try harder.' It's 'come.' One word.”

The child: “What's different about Your yoke?”

God: “Yours says do more, prove more. Mine says be faithful with what I gave you.”

God: “A yoke is built for two. I'm not removing the work. I'm getting under it.”

The child: “But won't everything fall apart if I rest?”

God: “If it falls apart when you rest, it was never held together by you.”

The child: “How do I rest? I've forgotten how.”

God: “Put one thing down. Not everything. Then just sit with Me.”

The child: “I'm putting it down. And I'm coming to You.”

God: “That's all I asked. Come.”

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28, KJV