“Why does God rest?” They contend that Sabbath is not God’s escape from the world (for if God escaped creation, we would cease to exist) but rather an intimate immersion into it. In other words, when God practices Sabbath, God delights in what God has made. Likewise, when humanity participates in the Sabbath, humanity is to “soak it up, be fully present to it and cherish the goodness of the world God has made.”10 Thus the opposite of rest is not work but restlessness. Humanity has become restless in its consumption, which “leads directly to the neglect of the places we are in and the people we
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