A Time for Rest

This week I managed to get a lot of things done early: homework, tests, etc, even though this was one of the busier weeks of this semester. It's now Friday, and I'm able to look back on the things i accomplished over the week and rejoice in the time that i have to rest and play. This rejoicing makes me think of the relationship in the gospel between work and rest. The Book of Mormon: Another testament of Jesus Christ, teaches us that "this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God, yea ... this life is the day for men to preform their labors" (Alma 34: 32). It also teaches us that after this life, the righteous will enter into a "state of rest" (Alma 42: 12). Thus the beginning of this week was like mortality, and now that it's the weekend, and i worked hard and got my work done, the weekend is like a state of rest.
We see another example between work and rest in the scriptures in Genesis Chapter 1-2. In Genesis chapter 1 we learn that God created the world in 6 days. In Genesis chapter 2 vs 2 we learn that "he rested on the seventh day from all his work." Thus we see the pattern in the Gospel of hard work for a time and then rest.