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Sabbath rhythm can feel weighty and impractical until resurrection awakens us.
You often feel like you need someone else to handle the hard stuff, the stuff that overwhelms you, that you don’t think you are capable of doing on your own. You think other people are more equipped than you. And I’m showing you, right now, that you can do this. Because I’m with you and I’m enough.
I exchange the fear of vulnerability with courage, believing in myself.
In essence, you can go through it, or you can grow through it.
Living in expectation that life will be better is discovering what listening is to hopefulness.
In expectant listening, we learn that God has not and will not forget about us.
What if we translated a forced Sabbath—that point of relentless discomfort that comes with difficulty—as an opportunity to deepen intimacy with Jesus?
A healing of the body is not always a healing of the soul.
You may not have time for a whole day to rest, but a small window of time here and there cultivates a Sabbath heart.
Pausing for prayerful listening, even for just a few minutes, brings everything that is important back into focus.
“freedom from noise and goal-directed tasks, it appears, unites the quiet without and within, allowing our conscious workspace to do its thing, to weave ourselves into the world, to discover where we fit in. That’s the power of silence.”
incorporate three minutes a day to listen to your heart and hear what God is saying.
Sabbath is a time set apart to learn about trust, available any day of the week, not just on Sunday.
“Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind” (Ecclesiastes 4:6 NLT).
“Grief shared is grief diminished,”
Relationship is small town with Jesus. He knows your name and what you will say before you utter it. His couch is always available and bread never runs out, no matter the circumstance.
“For me, observing Sabbath is permission to take the rest I desperately need; to get over the guilt that somehow I should just be supernaturally okay.
“Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met” (Matthew 6:33 MSG).
Sabbath-keeping isn’t a magic formula we follow in order to attain preferred outcomes, but a recognition of God’s sovereignty over the minutes. When we forget God is in control of what he creates,
May God’s voice be an interruption of certainty—a
Apart from The Holy we think we can improve our lives simply by progressing, getting a little more of this and then of that. But like a badly aimed arrow, the farther we go, the greater the miss. Eugene Peterson, The Jesus Way
Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope. My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life” (Psalm 119:49–50).
Our brave yeses pull God’s finger on a divine trigger, unleashing a new season of life together.
“My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’ And my heart responds, ‘Lord, I am coming’” (Psalm 27:8 NLT).
Noah, it says in Genesis, was a righteous man, the only blameless person living on earth at the time. He walked in close fellowship with God (Genesis 6:9). In Hebrew, Noah means rest, comfort, repose. The only blameless person on the earth was also the man whose name is identified with rest. Do you grasp the significance?
because hope does not disappoint; it pulls us into the future. Hope and rest are connected.
I want to be like Noah. One walking against popular norms in our culture for the sake of intimate union, trusting a rainbow will appear on the horizon.
Friends remind us we are loved when we are afraid of the future.
Intentionally connect with people, not because you need something from them but because you want to cultivate their friendship.
Give yourself permission to “waste time” for the sake of rest.
I’m thinking about a time of resting differently now and realize it’s actually okay to indulge myself a little—sit in my comfiest chair, read a fascinating book just because, and relax in being a person of worth in God’s eyes, whether I am at all active or not.
