I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in each year.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What practice gives you a sense of renewal?
Like the Iris of an Eye
“…Love should
grow up like a wild iris, but doesn’t, it comes from
the midst of everything else, sees like the iris
of an eye, when the light is right,
feels in blindness and when there is nothing else is
tender, blinks, and opens
face up to the skies. “
—Susan Griffin
What opens your eyes to love?
Counter-Cultural
“When practiced, Sabbath-keeping is an active protest against a culture that is always on, always available and always looking for something else to do.”
―Stephen W. Smith
How do you push back against a 24/7 social media culture?
Outside the Light
It is possible to be surrounded by rays of golden, glorious light and never notice. Addictions, fears, even a sense of entitlement can leave us caught on the dirty floor with no idea that just above our head there is more beauty than we could have imagined.
What has prevented you from seeing the beauty that was just beyond your reach?
Prescription
“We doctors, in the treatment of nervous disease, are now constantly compelled to prescribe periods of rest. Some periods are, I think, only Sundays in arrears.”
—Sir James Crichton-Browne
How has rest healed you?