{"id":1965,"date":"2012-10-18T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2012-10-18T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T21:00:19","slug":"sabbath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/sabbath\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Ortlund on <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/rayortlund\/2012\/10\/13\/quietness-of-heart-1\/\">Sabbath<\/a>. I like the last 3 sentences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we did set apart one day each week for rejuvenation in God, we would immediately add to every year over seven weeks of vacation.\u00a0 And not for doing nothing but for worship, for friends, for mercy, for an afternoon nap, for reading and thinking, for lingering around the dinner table and sharing good jokes and tender words and personal prayers.<\/p>\n<p>How else can we find quietness of heart in today\u2019s world?\u00a0 . . .<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the very concept of \u201cthe weekend\u201d is biblical.\u00a0 It seems to me that \u201cthe weekend\u201d turns Sunday into a second Saturday.\u00a0 Home Depot may gain, but we lose.\u00a0 It turns Sunday into a day to catch up on what we didn\u2019t do Saturday or a day to ramp up for what\u2019s ahead on Monday.\u00a0 It hollows out our whole week, because it marginalizes God and church and sermons and all the other vital things that happen in our lives only when we make the vital things also the central things.\u00a0 If we accept the concept of \u201cthe weekend,\u201d we risk \u201cfitting God in\u201d rather than centering our every week around him.\u00a0 We risk living soul-exhausted lives, and wondering why God isn\u2019t more real to us, why we\u2019re grumpy.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to find our way back into quietness of heart and reality with God, the first step might be simple.\u00a0 Bold, but simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Ortlund on Sabbath. I like the last 3 sentences. &#8220;If we did set apart one day each week for rejuvenation in God, we would immediately add to every year over seven weeks of vacation.\u00a0 And not for doing nothing but for worship, for friends, for mercy, for an afternoon nap, for reading and thinking, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiritual-life","category-thoughts-on-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}