Whether you have the flu or a cold or suffer like I do from fibromyalgia, you will have days where your body forces you to rest simply because you can't do anything else. But that doesn't mean that resting will make it better. Nor does it guarantee that you will gather more spoons to use when you rise up from your sickbed. When you are chronically ill, you don't get better and rest definitely doesn't leave you feeling refreshed and full of energy. The most rest can do for us is give us a...