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What if we didn't go to bed every night?
What if, instead of sleeping every night, we simply kept going until our bodies couldn't handle it anymore?
What if people would only sleep when they got to the point of collapsing?
What if you never knew when your next night of sleep would be?
Now, that would just be silly, wouldn't it? It sounds like college life during exam time. But, what if that's what it was like all the time?
That's what I feel our life is like when we don't have a designated time to just rest.
I'm talking about the Sabbath. It dawned on me that is it part of our natural cycle of life, much like sleep.
Yet, it isn't perceived that way.
It has been coming up lately, so I've been thinking about it.
We're all running around non-stop, constantly working, or worrying about working, or procrastinating in the guilty sort of "I should be working" way.
I think we're cheating ourselves, God, and we're actually being less productive overall.
Now... I'm still trying to work out the kinks of observing the sabbath in my life. It isn't easy. You have to work very hard those 6 days of the week so you can be prepared to rest on the seventh. But something is definitely telling me that it's worth it. And, not only that...it's what we're called to do.
I just don't know why something this obvious has never struck me before.