We can’t say enough about wisdom & truth. Leaders are thought to have more wisdom than those they lead. Leaders, by all societal standards, are supposed to have it all together. Leaders do not get to take a break to feel down or be wrong, because they have to dispense the truth to the people they lead. Truth, however, is as difficult as it is simple at all levels, especially with so many…

The word holy means commodity that's sacred or devoted to God. Jesus tutored that the Sabbath was about mercy and was purposeful. It was supposed to point to him, the one promised through all of Israel's prophets, the bone who would restore the meter of creation. When followers of Jesus observe the Sabbath, we live as if this restoration has formerly taken place. According to the biblical narrative when God revealed the Ten Commandments to the Israelites at biblical Mount Sinai, they were commanded to remember the Sabbath and keep it holy by not doing any work and allowing the whole ménage to cease from work. Sunday is the day on which we all hold our common assembly because it's the first day on which God, having wrought a change in the darkness and matter, made the world; and Jesus Christ our Rescuer on the same day rose from the dead. There are no hard and fast rules for how to take a Sabbath. It isn't about “ getting it right,” but accepting God's assignation into rest. The specific ways in which each person, family, and community practices the Sabbath will be different. Numerous Christians choose to rest on Sundays, but this isn't obligatory. We should observe the seventh day of the week (Saturday), from indeed to indeed, as the Sabbath of the Lord our God. The evening is at evening when the day ends and another day begins. No other day has ever been sanctified as the day of rest. The Sabbath Day begins at eve on Friday and ends at eve on Saturday.

Just. How DARE you.

How dare you twist the Sabbath into *that* and whatever capitalist agenda you subscribe to.

(Especially have that message play over a sacred holiday weekend for jews and christians alike, sabbath-keeping or not.)

It is SO HARD to get people to respect Sabbath keepers (jewish or not—I’m SDA, but there’s others who keep the sabbath besides those two groups) when crap like *that* is played. Let alone feeling like I’m keeping the Sabbath in spirit when trying to make sure I have it is so freaking stressful!

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OH. And if someone’s “wanting to get to their next time off” truly? That’s a symptom that there’s something seriously WRONG with their work environment. Like getting overworked and not recovering on their “weekends”/time off/vacations, and/or a toxic work environment socially, and/or the type of work itself is misery (like being unsuited to it, too easy, too difficult, too hectic, too slow, too busy, not bust enough, etc.)