On the Seventh Day

My family has come to expect, and request, that I take a Sunday nap. By the time 1pm rolls around on Sunday my body starts reacting automatically in anticipation of the pillow much as a mouth starts salivating in anticipation of a favorite dish. Over the past months we've also slowed down as a family on Sunday nights; we like to stay home and grill our dinner meal. It's a nice resolution to the week, and a fresh start for the week ahead. Opportunities abound, and it would be easy enough to squeeze in another service, another visit, or another chore, but we try to rest. Not everyone needs an exaggerated nap as I take, but everyone needs to have a time set aside to rest and re-set, to rest and re-center, to rest and re-connect. To rest in trust and faith.

My prayer for the congregation?

This is a prayer by Frank Topping that I printed and keep in my Bible. May it also inspire you to rest in the Lord. Amen.

Lord,
teach me to rest in you.
Teach me to see the sky
and to think of nothing else
but the joy of it.
Teach me to look
at field and flower
and be soothed
by colours and seasons.
Teach me to close my eyes
and to rest
in the Love that has supported me
all my days.
Teach me, Lord,
to rest in you.
"Resting" by Frank Topping