How Healthy Is Your Practice of Sabbath Delight?
- I regularly practice Sabbath by setting aside a twenty-four-hour period in which I stop my work and rest.
Sabbath provides a healthy boundary and limits around my paid and unpaid work. I take time on my weekly Sabbath to delight in God's innumerable gifts (e.g., people, beauty, hobbies, mountains, food, music, etc) I view the Sabbath as a day to practice eternity and taste the ultimate Sabbath rest when I will see Jesus face-to-face. I practice Sabbath as a prophetic, countercultural act that resists the culture's value that defines me by what I do rather than who I am (i.e., God's beloved son/daughter). I am comfortable letting go of my responsibilities on Sabbath, fully trusting God to run the world and build his kingdom without me. I find my identity primarily in God's love rather than in my work or my role as a leader. l often receive unexpected insights and discernment during Sabbath. l apply my Sabbath guidelines of stop, rest, delight, and contemplate to extended vacations and holidays I intentionally prepare and plan for Sabbath so that I have the time and space to focus on Goď's love coming to me through the many gifts from his hand.- The emotionally healthy leader