Graceless Sabbath is legalism. That is why it is better to do the Sabbath poorly than never try. Make Sabbath mistakes. Learn from them. Then enter the next Sabbath with your lesson in hand. Learning how to fail at the Sabbath is a critical part of learning how to Sabbath. Let us have grace for ourselves and for others. Yes, questions about which day to Sabbath are important, but they are never ultimate. “I begin to think,” says Brian Doyle, “that it does not matter how or when or how long we observe the Sabbath; it matters only that we do.”33
