Simultaneously, God has ideals that he expects of and desires for us, and God knows we cannot meet them and so he seeks to meet us in the moments that we try to keep his ideals, even imperfectly. As it relates to the poor, the stay-at-home dad, the person in prison, the disabled, or any person who is in a place of life where Sabbath is excruciatingly problematic, what matters most is not that they do a Sabbath perfectly but that they try their best in whatever context they find themselves in. While the ideal is to rest one day a week, some simply cannot. And for the person who risks to take a
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