I don’t keep the Sabbath well. In fact, after church is done it’s just another day. It’s been bothering me for a while. Not just because it’s a commandment, just because…..well…in my gut it just makes sense to slow down and remind myself about what’s important.<\/p>\n
At church today the sermon was on keeping the Sabbath day holy. It was a great sermon that touched on many of the original meanings of Sabbath and the traditions. As a Protestant we’re freed from the rigid ways of the orthodox religions – sticking to Saturday, no making fires, etc. But that’s not what really interests me right now. What interests me is my perfect Sabbath day today.<\/p>\n
I took the minister’s words to heart, along with one of my favorite Martin Luther quotes: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d So I decided to start today.<\/font><\/p>\n It kind of helped that the day started with the church choir singing beautifully, and I got to play a new Bach organ prelude that I really enjoy. But then I decided not to work. I went to a friends house for several hours and just talked with them. Then had dinner with my family, then watched the sunset with my mother.<\/font><\/p>\n I know it might not sound like much. But it was the perfect sabbath. I like the change.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t keep the Sabbath well. In fact, after church is done it’s just another day. It’s been bothering me for a while. Not just because it’s a commandment, just because…..well…in my gut it just makes sense to slow down and remind myself about what’s important. At church today the sermon was on keeping the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-7a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}