Give yourself a break
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The story is told that once Paul McCartney was getting
into a taxi to go to a song writing session with John
Lennon (Paul’s licence had been suspended for speeding ticket.) Chatting with the taxi driver he asked him if he had been working hard. The taxi driver replied yes…Eight days a week. Paul liked the phrase
shared it with John and it became a song.
“God put me on this earth to accomplish a
certain number of things. Right now
I am so far behind that I
will never die.” Bill Watterson
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen
at once.” Albert EinsteinWhich is funny, because
everything always happens at once.... phone rings, someone at
the door, dog or cat or kid needs something.
The same is true that the day you are late, you can’t find a
parking spot, you hit all the red lights, you inevitably spill or
wreck something.The same is true of problems….
They seem to pile on…
Keeping the Sabbath is an exercise in trusting the way of
the divine in your life.Realizing that life does not depend on my capacity to
work harder, do more, accomplish something…
It is not about whether you work on Sunday – or whether
you work 8 days a week. Sabbath is the
acknowledgement that we can’t make a better life
by what we do.
Sabbath is about what we receive…
What do you receive? A break –
There is mystery here….
What a break looks like is different
for us all.
How about this.Just for this week…
Give yourself a break…
Don’t be so critical of yourself.
I guarantee you someone is doing that Job already. Forgive yourself.
Leave one thing until tomorrow.
“You don't want to get to the end of
life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.”
~Robert Brault
And here’s the part that makes Sabbath. In the great mystery of life…
do everything that needs to be done…
There’s a lot to do, feed yourself, go to work, do
your exams, assignments, walk, take out your
garbage, do the errands
But don’t forget to enter into the mystery that is already
there – the Sabbath moment in the midst of everything we
do…It’s that mystery that’s found
in the sunrise, or sunset, in the sense of completeness when you gaze upon a full
moon surrounded by a halo of and forget… that it 5:45 and -20 and instead find yourself in the presence of the divine.
Our lives are not getting any slower… and that’s not going
to change. So choose to enter into the world that exists in tandem with and yet beyond what is physically happening.
Remember that for all the busyness and lists of things to
do the only thing you really need to do eight days a
week…. is love….Love God, love neighbour and
love self….