Sabbath

I am on holidays this week. I understand why God made Sabbath one of the commandments. It is so important to step out of the routine and the pressurized life that we live most of the time to just, well, breathe! I have been spending the first couple of days of my holidays puttering. You know – cleaning off my desk, catching up on emails that are long overdue, I even spent some time trying to organize the paperwork for my income tax return. Nothing very exciting but it sure feels good to spend the time on those mundane things. It is, in fact quite restorative to cross thing off the “To Do list” when they have been on there for a long time. I have also been able to do a little reading.

I love what I do. Ministry has been my calling since I was a teenager but every now and then it just feels so therapeutic to step away and just hang out around the house.

I have never been one to rigidly adhere to rules but I can see the merit and the wisdom, and in some ways I long for, a sense of Sabbath. Not the old fashioned kind where you could do nothing but sit and read inspirational literature but the kind of Sabbath that builds into life a time of peace and quiet. A day that calls for a different rhthym, a slower pace, a God space.

Tomorrow I am off to Toronto. A visit to the aquarium. A night at the theatre – also very restorative activities for me. Remember when I said a couple of days ago that for Lent I am clearing space for God? It is happening this week. Ahhhhhhh!