Working From Rest: A Prayer JourneySample

Sabbath Rest

Lord, thank you for the sabbath rest you provide and the way it shapes my identity.

Sabbath rest is intrinsic to our identity as God’s people. ‘You are in the image of the creator God who did not need to work to get ahead. Nor do you! God invites the ones at Sinai to a new life of neighborly freedom in which the Sabbath is the cornerstone of faithful freedom. Such faithful practice of work stoppage is an act of resistance. It declares in bodily ways that we will not participate in the anxiety system that pervades our social environment. We will not be defined by busyness and by acquisitiveness and by the pursuit of more … because our life does not consist in commodity.’ Walter Brueggemann

For reflection: What part does sabbath rest play in your spiritual disciplines?