Lumunos e-News: Sabbath Issue August 2009 Greetings! The fullness of summer is here: bright sunlight, big sky, juicy tomatoes, and wild growth spurts.  And still the economy calls for wise choices, unrest is prevalent, and living justly requires action.  Amidst this mix of life, we wanted to send you an invitation to sabbath as our e-News this month. Enjoy! Sabbath is resting in the trust that God is at work.  Call Questions What are your Sabbath practices? What are you rooted in, this season? What are you growing toward? How do you take in the light? Stop. Now. There is astounding wisdom in the traditional Jewish Sabbath, that it begins precisely at sundown, whether that comes at a wintry 4:30 or late on a summer evening. Sabbath is not dependent upon our readiness to stop. We do not stop when we are finished. We do not stop when we complete our phone calls, finish our project, get through this stack of messages or get out this report that is due tomorrow. We stop because it is time to stop.... The old, wise Sabbath says: Stop now. As the sun touches the horizon, take the hand off the plow, put down the phone, let the pen rest on the paper, turn off the computer, leave the mop in the bucket and the car in the drive. There is no room for negotiation, no time to be seduced by the urgency of our responsibilities. We stop because there are forces larger than we that take care of the universe. The galaxy will somehow manage without us for this hour, this day, so we are invited to relax and enjoy our relative unimportance, our humble place at the table in a very large world. from Wayne Muller, Sabbath, Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest