When we keep a Sabbath, our entire existence begins to experience ripple effects of rest. We sleep better. We are more awake to the people we are with. We have more energy. We pay closer attention to being people of gratitude. In other words, we enter into peace. In a way, the Sabbath has a kind of healing effect within our lives. Imagine what it would be like if the norm of our lives was that we got the rest we needed. Imagine that. But that is rarely the case, as Henri Nouwen once suggested: “We aren’t rest-filled people who occasionally become restless. We are restless people who sometimes
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