While I am not single, I do have many single friends and single parishioners. What I have seen is that the most daunting part of a Sabbath for them is the idea of spending the day alone when they have felt alone all week long. What the single person can learn is that one has freedom to do on the Sabbath what one’s spirit and soul needs. If being with people is life giving, be with people. If being alone is life giving, be alone.

