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Sabbath Notes for Future Self (inspired by Marva Dawn's Keeping the Sabbath Wholly)
- Things to plan before each Sabbath:
- Meals
- Sunday obligations
- Creative Time
- Outings/Events?
- Rest from:
- Work & School
- Housework/Cleaning/Organizing
- Planning/Strategizing/Calendar
- Technology
- Shopping/Acquiring
- Cooking (as a chore)
- Exercise (as a chore)
- Focus on:
- Spiritual Refreshment & Worship
- Rest/Recreation
- Relationships/Connection
- Creativity/Spontaneity/Imagination
- Aids to rest:
- Music
- Nature
- Art
- Smells (candles, fragrances)
- Reading (devotional material, poems, prayers, stories, novels, short stories)
- Making fires
- Easy meals with friends
- Ceasing:
- Work
- Productivity and accomplishment
- Anxiety, worry, and tension
- Trying to be God
- Possessiveness
- Enculturation
- The humdrum and meaninglessness
- Resting:
- Spiritual
- Physical
- Emotional
- Intellectual
- Embracing:
- Intentionality
- The values of the Christian community
- Time instead of space
- Giving instead of requiring
- Our calling in life
- Wholeness (shalom)
- The world
- Feasting:
- On the eternal
- With music
- With beauty
- With food
- With affection
- And festival