{"id":51,"date":"2011-06-11T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrtministry.org\/sabbath-soul-care\/"},"modified":"2011-06-11T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T14:53:00","slug":"sabbath-soul-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesojournersgarden.org\/blog\/sabbath-soul-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabbath Soul Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am reading a book by Wayne Muller called Sabbath<\/span>. You see I at times have trouble with rest. By rest I don’t mean the physical activity of sleeping – though I have issues there too, but that is another story. No, I think that Sabbath is more than that – it is a mental, physical, & spiritual resting from the business of life by quieting ourselves and coming into the presence of God. Muller puts it this way:<\/p>\n

When the moment of rest had come, the time for healing was over. He (Jesus) would simply stop, retire to a quiet place, and pray.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Muller goes on to say this about prayer. <\/p>\n

When Jesus prayed He was at rest, nurished by the healing spirit that saturates those still, quiet places. In the Jesus tradition, prayer can be a practice of simply being in the presence of God, allowing the mind to rest in the heart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The take away here, the thing that we need to remember and practice is that the Sabbath is so much about a specific day or time, it is the practice of recognizing when Sabbath rest is needed and then stealing away to the quiet place to pray and enter into Gods presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am reading a book by Wayne Muller called Sabbath. You see I at times have trouble with rest. By rest I don’t mean the physical activity of sleeping – though I have issues there too, but that is another story. No, I think that Sabbath is more than that – it is a mental, … <\/p>\n

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