Give your mom a hug

My mother's day gift to Felicia: lunch with her mother and daughter WITHOUT Adam. I'm sure she was able to eat all her food before it got cold.

I had hoped to relax a bit today - I volunteered at the Roundhouse yesterday and that ate up most of my day.

But... I had to finish a report for Church Health and Planting and start on my lesson planning for my first lesson on Tuesday.

Still managed to catch the Survivor finale - Yau Man denied!!! What a tragedy - he is one of the best contestants in the history of the show.

I finished reading "Living the Sabbath" by Norman Wirzba today. Wirzba is the chair of the philosophy department at Georgetown University. The book is published by Brazos Press, which is quickly becoming one of my favourite publishers due to the high level of content in their books. They published a great book on technology called "Power Failure" a few years ago.

The Sabbath book is split into two parts. Part 1 deals with the concept of Sabbath as a concept - what does it mean, how doe we enter into the Sabbath rest? The second part deals with practicalities of sabbath in everyday life: sabbath at home, work, the environment, etc.

Here's a taste:

Sabbath teaches us that the world is at its best when it lives for God and His pleasure. The Sabbath is not a break from life, but a profound theological lens that enables us to get a better look at all of it. In its observance we commit ourselves to honor the presence of God in all things and to participate in the ways of life and health.

Keeping the Sabbath really is a matter of life and death. When we forsake the Sabbath, what we are finally doing is closing ourselves off from God's life-giving and life-sustaining grace, demonstrating that we think we can live by ourselves and from our own might. Though we no longer physically kill those who violate Sabbath observance, we have to acknowledge that this path, because it is fraught with anxiety, fear and worry, will inevitably lead to violence as we attempt to expand and make total the reach of our control and power. The security and comfort we think we are achieving will finally be hollow, because they come without the delight that follows from experiencing the world as God experienced it at the dawn of creation, and as God still yearns to find it today. - 41.