Slowing Down: A Lesson I'm Still Learning

Hi friends,

Thought I'd send you all a little update...

Last Friday, all 500 Sabbath Guides were delivered to my house, and it felt like Christmas!! Opening the box and pulling out the fruit of 11 months of work was wild and so fun.

But then it happened. I flipped through a few copies and realized... all the pages were bound out of order! The books were unusable. The finish line I thought I was crossing wasn't a finish line after all. Total bummer.

After the shock wore off and I sent an email to the printer, I took a second to exhale.

Then it hit me: I wrote a resource on slowing down, and here God is... slowing me down. Out of excitement, my pace for this project has been gradually increasing, taking up more and more time and brain space. I've compromised on rest and spent too many Sabbath afternoons working on the details of the launch (I know-- so scandalous for a person who just wrote a book on protecting Sabbath).

So God used Friday to pump the brakes a bit and remind me that I still need his rest just as much as I did when I started this work. I put my laptop in a box for the weekend. And watched the Godspeed short film/documentary. And played with my friends' kids. And drank my current favorite sparkling water (orange vanilla Waterloo, in case you're wondering). And God met me there. He reminded me that his pace is better. And I felt filled up for the first time in a while.

So in the words of the great poet Usher... "these are my confessions." And I hope this serves as an encouragement for your own Sabbath practice. It'll ebb and flow. We are, indeed, prone to wander. But God gently calls us back to him, and it's pretty great.

That's it for now!

The guides are being reprinted as I type this, and I'll keep you posted once they're ready to go.

Ever learning,

LK