"So what did you do on your sabbatical, Tim?" "Nothing - I just unwound, unhooked, unscheduled, I just slowed down." And people look at me like I'm crazy.
We don't slow down in our culture; we speed up. We are pushed and pressured and wear the word 'busy' as though it were a badge of honor. The world keeps inventing new technologies so that we can 'go faster and faster and become busier and busier.'
I remember from another era, a song written by Paul Simon:
Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.
Maybe we have lost our groove! Truth is...the more time we save, the less time we have.
Was a time when wisdom put aside one day a week as a Sabbath. It was a time to slow down, sit back, unschedule. Are we happier because we are faster and busier? Or, might the wisdom of the age be folly, and the eternal wisdom of God, truth?
Your choice - honor the Sabbath that it may be well with your soul, or see how much you get done on Sunday.
