Sabbath and sunsets

Today at Monday Afternoon Girlies we thought about Sabbath - exploring the sense of ceasing doing things - hard for us with so many activities - sport and music and ballet and zoo and leading KUCA. We thought about how coming to church isn't really Sabbath but more activity.

We thought about whether or not setting aside time is relevant anymore - we liked being able to shop on Sunday's and it is the only day we're often all home as a family to get all those jobs done.

So when you're 14 or 16 or 40-something what does it mean to have Sabbath rest in your life?

Has it got something to do with the holidays?

And then one of us was awake up to a Sabbath moment in the afternoon and we got to share this - from the road and sadly not the rooftop ...

right in the middle of our talking and thinking. A reminder of why we need Sabbath - to cease some things; to embrace our Christian calling with integrity; to rest even our very busy minds and to feast on the beauty of God.