Shabbat is known to us as Sabbath. In the Hebrew context it comes from the creation account in Genesis and it speaks to God’s ordination of taking a day of rest each week, in the creation account it is the seventh day. In our more modern context it is a concept that is almost lost. We all go hard, all the time and sometimes forget that God has ordained for us the need for rest, and for regeneration.  Leonardo da Vinci  once opined, “Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”

For the next couple of weeks I will not post to this blog as I will be taking some Shabbat. My hope is to take that time to relax, refresh, reconnect, and to pray. “The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”  – Soren Kierkegaard. I hope that I will indeed change the nature of the one doing the praying.

Expect a post again later in August.

For now I am taking the Kit Kat Approach.

"Give yourself a Kit Kat…Give yourself a break!"

I think this Kit Kat advertisment is a good reminder of how everyone needs a break

 And then there is this really good ad from overseas that shows how much can be accomplished when you give yourself a break.

Shalom

Kevin