Marva Dawn has said that Sabbath is about four things: ceasing, resting, embracing, and feasting.59 It is in Sabbath that we enjoy, we delight, we relish in the goodness and generativity of God. We play. We feast. We rest. We echo with God, “It is good!” And in our Sabbath play, we discover that to play is to pray.60 Hear the words of Donna Schaper: “Sabbath keeping is a spiritual strategy: it is a kind of judo. The world’s commands are heavy; we respond with light moves. The world says work; we play. The world says go fast; we go slow. These light moves carry Sabbath into our days, and God
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