As God invites us to Sabbath, we will be tempted to think that Sabbath cannot “work” for us. “I don’t have time to take a whole day to rest,” people have expressed to me for years. Biblically, however, this is not the case. The biblical story tells us that to rest one day a week is to be truly human, and to not rest is to be inhuman. Humans were made to rest. When we say we don’t have time to rest, we cannot find time for something that has already been found. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer once wrote, with God, an imperative is an indicative.
