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Or perhaps we take seriously the act of going to bed and asking, How am I going to end this thing? Shall we lie awake in bed, letting all the replay tapes run? Shall we browse our phones for some recent celebrity scandal to bounce meaninglessly around our brain? Or shall we walk intentionally toward the rest we know we need? No one can sleep while believing that she needs to keep the world spinning. But real rest comes when we thank God that we don’t need to, because he does. Thus we kneel by the bed and place the period of God’s mercy and care for us at the end of the day.
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
More than that: Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them. (v. 8) They are the ones who champion anxiety and affirm restlessness. The adherents to the gods of restlessness find such a predatory society normal. And then into our midst comes this other unexpected voice from outside the Pharonic system: “Let my people go!” (Exod. 5:1).
Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide
Walter Brueggemann
Truly such as these, if when called they refuse to undertake offices of supreme rule, for the most part deprive themselves of the very gifts which they received not for themselves alone, but for others also; and, while they meditate their own and not another’s gain, they forfeit the very benefits which they desire to keep to themselves.
The Book of Pastoral Rule
Saint Gregory the Great
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