The story is told that once Paul McCartney was getting

into a taxi to go to a song writing session with John

Lennon (Paul’s licence had been suspended for speeding ticket.) Chatting with the taxi driver he asked him if he had been working hard. The taxi driver replied yes…Eight days a week. Paul liked the phrase

shared it with John and it became a song.

Do you ever feel like you are

working 8 days a week?

“God put me on this earth to accomplish a

certain number of things. Right now

I am so far behind that I

will never die.” Bill Watterson

“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen

at once.” Albert EinsteinWhich is funny, because

everything always happens at once.... phone rings, someone at

the door, dog or cat or kid needs something.

The same is true that the day you are late, you can’t find a

parking spot, you hit all the red lights, you inevitably spill or

wreck something.The same is true of problems….

They seem to pile on…

We often find ourselves saying to the universe,

Crying out to God,

Give me abreak!!!

What does a spiritual break

look like?It’s a Sabbath.

This is not a Sabbath

Sabbath is not a list of things you can’t do

Keeping the Sabbath is an exercise in trusting the way of

the divine in your life.Realizing that life does not depend on my capacity to

work harder, do more, accomplish something…

It is not about whether you work on Sunday – or whether

you work 8 days a week. Sabbath is the

acknowledgement that we can’t make a better life

by what we do.

Sabbath is about what we receive…

What do you receive? A break –

There is mystery here….

What a break looks like is different

for us all.

How about this.Just for this week…

Give yourself a break…

Don’t be so critical of yourself.

I guarantee you someone is doing that Job already. Forgive yourself.

Leave one thing until tomorrow.

“You don't want to get to the end of

life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.”

~Robert Brault

And here’s the part that makes Sabbath. In the great mystery of life…

do everything that needs to be done…

There’s a lot to do, feed yourself, go to work, do

your exams, assignments, walk, take out your

garbage, do the errands

But don’t forget to enter into the mystery that is already

there – the Sabbath moment in the midst of everything we

do…It’s that mystery that’s found

in the sunrise, or sunset, in the sense of completeness when you gaze upon a full

moon surrounded by a halo of and forget… that it 5:45 and -20 and instead find yourself in the presence of the divine.

It’s why the Dalai Lama says that “Sleep is the best meditation.” ― Dalai Lama

XIV

Our lives are not getting any slower… and that’s not going

to change. So choose to enter into the world that exists in tandem with and yet beyond what is physically happening.

Remember that for all the busyness and lists of things to

do the only thing you really need to do eight days a

week…. is love….Love God, love neighbour and

love self….