Sabbath

sabbath:
noun
a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jews from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday


Am I the only one who feels like this is a hot topic/word in our culture currently?

Let me make this perfectly clear before going any further - SABBATH IS IMPORTANT!

What I am speaking of is more of a seriousness to rest.  Unbelievers are sabbathing and taking in rest in the physical form only while believers are learning more about what it is to rest in the Lord and sabbathing their heart and physical bodies.

After our failed adoption of #bsd in May, Derek and I felt a strong sense to rest.  Rest from people.  Rest from things.  Rest from business.  Rest in the Lord with our heartaches.  Just rest.  During the month of July we said "no thank you" to anything and everything that was not already on our calendar.  If it was not a "have to" we weren't doing it.  We didn't get any birth mother summaries.  We spent time in prayer and seeking the Lord's healing.

It.  Was.  Glorious.

Growing up as a preacher's kid Sunday was a work day.  Let's be really blunt right now --- MINISTERS HAVE NO OFF DAYS!  Likewise, ministers' families have no off days.  If you think otherwise, you are sadly mistaken.  But I digress.
So, Sundays weren't a day of rest for us.  The thought of having some time, let alone a full day, where we got to just be and rest without a church call was unthinkable so Sabbathing fully was never something I even thought to be possible.

Fast forward to today and my pastor is speaking on it on Sunday morning, my current favorite podcast is talking about it, and there are new books everywhere about the Sabbath.

Derek and I are homebodies for the most part.  We like to spend time with the people we love but we also like our 4 walls too.  We do home errands on Saturday so Sunday is free and not so filled with Honey Do's.  And Sunday we church.  We prioritize nap for HW and have gotten quite a bit of flack over it.  A cup of hot tea in my hammock while HW plays on his treehouse is the best part of my Sunday afternoons.  That is what my life currently looks like to Sabbath, but is there more to it?

How do you Sabbath?  How can I and my family better Sabbath?  How can we take a lazy Sunday and turn it into resting our spirits in the shadow of the Lord's wing? We have seen a taste of the blessing of the Sabbath in the continued healing of our hearts and marriage and my appetite is growing for more.