Monday, September 04, 2006
I've been taking a walk through Mark Buchanan's "the Rest of God" over the last day and a bit. Time well spent. Besides being well written (you can tell always english lit majors), its very thoughtful and left me feeling like he'd been eavesdropping on my internal dialogue/tension between the part that knows I need rest, and another larger part that speaks on behalf of a large gathering of internal (and external) voices relentlessly clamoring for my attention and time. It was easy to find myself in the story. I'm still digesting.
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I just finished reading "The Rest of God". It was a convicting and healing read for me. It triggered some exploration of a few familiar biblical narratives giving an account of Jesus' interactions with his disciples that speak to the issue of busyness and rest with a different set of lens. I was captured by a phrase in Jesus' instructions to the 12 (as recorded in Matthew 10 - NIV). After commissioning them to "go" and "do" he says "freely you have received, freely give". I've always read that as a kind of closing motivational statement. But as I read it this time I was struck by the possibility that he might have been reminding them that their ability, capacity, motivation to serve with humility and truly give freely is predicated on their receiving freely. To be a good giver, you've got to be a good receiver. Jesus seems to repunctuates the spiritual life as beginning with Sabbath. Sabbath before our 6 days of work, not after it. Sabbath begins the sentence we write, rather than concludes what we write.
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