This Sunday we have the opportunity to preach on the 10 Commandments. I was looking at the list this week and was thinking that the one we break most often is the commandment about Sabbath. So we, at Saint Mark's are going to be talking about Sabbath, and hopefully coming up with some ideas that would help us be more intentional about keeping Sabbath.
I wanted to share with you a poem by Wendell Berry that I came across this week. Wendell Berry is one of my favorite authors...he is known for taking a walk every Sunday morning and then going home and writing a Sabbath poem...here's one he wrote a few years ago.
Whatever is foreseen in joy
Must be lived out from day to day.
Vision held open in the dark
By our ten thousand days of work.
Harvest will fill the barn; for that
The hand must ache, the face must sweat.
And yet no leaf or grain is filled
By work of ours; the field is tilled
And left to grace. That we may reap,
Great work is done while we're asleep.
When we work well, a Sabbath mood
Rests on our day, and finds it good.
May you each find time this week to spend in Sabbath. Turn off the phone, don't go online...just spend time with the one who created you!
Grace and peace,
Amy <><
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