Sabbathing
Sabbathing is so hard. Why? Why is pausing such a challenge? Why is resting so counterintuitive? Like, literally, I knew I wanted to receive the gift of Sabbath this week—and every week. (yes, New Covenant may or may not command this, but I believe it is a gift from God regardless). So I picked my 24 hours. I meted my parameters. And I cannot even count how many times I tried to justify squeezing work in and rest out of that day of Sabbath. About the third time a thought crossed my mind that well, maybe… I could just cut the rest day short by 2 hours so I could get groceries tonight OR maybe, I could just finish the church craft, that’s not hard right? etc, etc.. it hit me: this is a problem! I need to stick to my Sabbath, here. There are some major obstacles (from within and out) trying to stop me from this designation of stop . You know what all these temptations reveal, within me? How much I actually think I can do things better my way! I used to think it was so
