Leisure is a kind of rest from labor that depends upon God and does not require any utilitarian justification. In fact, it cannot have a utilitarian justification and be leisure. Pieper goes on to explain that at the heart of leisure is divine worship.3 Understood this way, these simple pleasures of life, which do in fact help you cope with the trauma of modernity, find their basis in the worship of God. When we delight in the good things God has given us, with gratitude toward Him and without any utilitarian justification, without any effort to “earn” our joy and pleasure, then it is a form
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