Sabbath and Culture – Walter Brueggemann

… Sabbath is a school for our desires, an expose and critique of the false desires that focus on idolatry and greed that have immense power for us. When we do not pause for Sabbath, these false desires take power over us. But Sabbath is the chance for self-embrace of our true identity.

From: Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

 

Giving Up – Marva J Dawn

A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us—not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

From: Marva J. Dawn, Keeping the Sabbath Wholly (see – http://www.sojo.net/blogs/2008/03/17/voice-day-sabbath )