Take Time to Be Human.

Something new about Sabbath is Walter Brueggemann’s perspective on how it can be a declaration of resistance against everything we think we should be doing or accomplishing. It’s our chance to say “no” as a way to remember that God is God and we are human. Brueggemann says in Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
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“We used to sing the hymn ‘Take Time to Be Holy.’
But perhaps we should be singing, ‘Take time to be human.’
Or finally, ‘Take time.’
Walter Brueggemann
“Sabbath as Resistance”

Sabbath is taking time … time to be holy … time to be human.” The crux of the Sabbath is another type of time, the exploration and reflection on all that has been made, including the limits we have as humans. We are humans, made in God’s image, declared not only good but very good.  

“God looked over everything he had made;
it was so good, so very good!”
Genesis 1:31

And we are human; we have limits to all we can or are asked to do.

This summer, take time to reflect, rest, restore, and resist—welcoming all that comes in the slowing as a reminder of God’s call for us to be human, including being holy and being made whole.