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 | | Posted by: Leanne | 11/11/2007 10:43 PM |
The Bible clearly sets forth a commandment from God that we are to observe a day of rest--sabbath. While it is clearly a commandment of God, it is often overlooked today. Life is much too busy and full to observe such a thing as a commandment to rest.
It is the week before Thanksgiving and I already feel myself getting overwhelmed and tense with everything I need to get done before Christmas!
The malls are already decorated, sales have begun, and the grocery, already today, was packed with people starting to stock up on sugar, flour and chocolate squares!
I think it would be wise for each of us to sit down and decide where we plan to make sabbath rest part of our holiday rituals. And then we need to share it with a trusted friend or family member so that we are more likely to stick to it!
Perhaps, each Sunday evening, you will vow not to do any work, but simply enjoy your family.
Perhaps, you will take twenty minutes each day to stop, rest and allow yourself the luxury of doing nothing!
Perhaps, you will get up a half hour before your kids do or stay up a half hour later and read a nice Advent devotional.
Perhaps, you will simply vow to pray faithfully each morning and each evening as a time of resting with God.
Perhaps, you and/or your children will log onto this website and simply light the Advent candles each day or decorate our Spiritual Christmas Tree and spend time reflecting on your needs and wishes this year.
I know what you you are thinking because I am thinking it as well. I will never find time to add rest into my busy schedule. But I will remind us all--Christmas will come this year, whether we are exhausted or rested. It will come whether we take time to reflect about the sacred meaning of the birth of Christ. And when it does arrive, I pray that we will will be spiritually ready to appreciate its holiness and purpose. We will not be ready unless we build times of sabbath rest into our lives.
I vow, to each of you who read this, to make myself a sabbath time each day of the holiday season--I pray you will as well!
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