Tuesday, April 01, 2008

A Wholly Holy Sabbath

I very much need to be reminded of this on a regular basis:

Sabbath ceasing [means] to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.
—Marva J. Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly