“Sabbath is the time set aside to do nothing so that we can receive everything, to set aside our anxious attempts to make ourselves useful, to set aside our tense restlessness, to set aside our media-satiated boredom. Sabbath is the time to receive silence and let it deepen into gratitude, to receive quiet into which forgotten faces and voices unobtrusively make themselves present, to receive the days of the just completed week and absorb the wonder and miracle still reverberating from each one, to receive our Lord’s amazing grace.”
—Eugene Peterson in “Tell It Slant”
My prayer this week: Dear God, quiet my spirit and calm my mind from the activity and anxieties of the week. Help me find solace in you alone. Open my ears to hear your “still, small voice,” and fill my heart with your peace.
