You’d think that after creating everything in the world, God would make someplace holy—a mountain, a forest—someplace that would become a cathedral, a sanctuary. But God did not make a place holy. God made time holy. Six days of the week our attention is given to the needs and gifts of our creative, busy lives. Six days a week we create and see the goodness of our creative activities, but on the Sabbath day, we are to become attuned to the sacredness of life itself. As we rest and practice the Sabbath we become more and more aware of the holiness of time.
This message is adapted from “Rest and Renew” written by Pamela Johnson and Susan Engh in the June 2000 issue of Lutheran Woman Today (now Gather) magazine. Today is the sixth Sunday of Easter.
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