Retreat and Sabbath

…  a retreat is a time set apart to be reminded of God’s presence in a deeper way. It is a time to remember again that God holds the world and me. It is a time to relax into God’s sovereignty and to remember God’s activity, not my own. It is a time that restores the rhythm for me between work and rest. As I think on it, for me retreat is extended Sabbath.

From: Time Away: A Guide for Personal Retreat, p 29,  by Ben Campbell Johnson and Paul H. Lang

 

A Frame for Ordinary Life – Eugene Peterson

If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.

From: Eugene H. Peterson

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