Like the exhausted refugee, fatigued by vulnerability, what we crave is rest. “You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”31 This insight in the opening paragraph of the Confessions is echoed at the very end of book 13: “‘Lord God, grant us peace; for you have given us all things’ (Isa. 26:12), the peace of quietness, the peace of the sabbath.”
