The Book

The drive to achieve is there when we build our businesses, chase the next opportunity, and stay up late answering one last email, taking one last call, making one last push. It motivates us in meetings, scripts our thoughts on our commutes, and whispers danger in our ear every time we think about slowing down.

It steals our quiet moments, drowns out the voices that matter most, and makes us strangers to peace. It convinces us that we can’t live without it.

But what is all the striving for? Where are we running to? What is the point of all our toil, in the end?

For years, Ron Anderson listened to the voice of busyness, convinced he couldn’t live without it. He was the guy who believed if he wasn’t working, he was falling behind. He thought Sabbath was for pastors and monks, not entrepreneurs.

Deep down, Ron knew something had to change. He told himself repeatedly that it was time to slow down, only to find himself back on the same abusive treadmill of achievement. Ron couldn’t resist the need to be productive, even from a hospital room.

Multiple health scares, and others’ voices speaking into his life, finally convinced him to pause long enough to hear from God. What he experienced in that holy rest was life-giving. Rest Still Stands is Ron’s raw, honest story of discovering true rest after a lifetime of chasing the wind.

Maybe you’ve been told, or tell yourself, that rest leads to failure. That slowing down is weakness. That your worth is measured by what you produce, by how much you accomplish, by how tirelessly you work.

Don’t be so busy doing things that seem good, you miss the great things God created you for. Rest Still Stands resonates with God’s patient whisper to cultivate rhythms of joy, generosity, and purpose. Ron’s story vividly illustrates that open invitation, which holds the power to save your health, your career, your marriage, and maybe even your soul.