Be still. Let God do some work. Our culture says that healing can only come by doing. Scripture tells a different story. The world is healed by our stopping. The Sabbath reverses this notion and invites us to see the process of healing through silence and nonaction. Just by being, we allow God to heal us and the land. The Sabbath helps us understand that our role in bringing about God’s peace in the world is not to be understood only in what we do; rather, sometimes it is by ceasing our doing that we usher in God’s kingdom and help heal the land.
