Keeping the Sabbath, Jim Mulvey, August 13, 2023

"Remember the Sabbath day, and keep it holy." Exodus 20:8 To the ancient Hebrews to sanctify and to make holy meant to set something apart. After laboring six days to create the world, the Hebrew god created the Sabbath as a day free from work, a day free from doing. It was created as a time for being. What are some of the ways we can keep Sabbath by separating ourselves for a day from the world and all of its busyness and constant doings? By keeping Sabbath we choose to ignore daily demands of production and consumption and make the time to just be. Sabbath time can become a time of countercultural resistance. Sabbath can become a time to rest and restore the soul. This sermon podcast begins with a reading of Deuteronomy 5:14 by Rev. Kathleen Rolenz.