A Sabbath’s Rest

After a while, this Sabbath-less way of living might even become a point of honor with us. We begin bragging about being so busy that we “have not had a vacation in years.” What we fail to realize is that this is already a public declaration of our spiritual poverty.

Whether we mean it to be or not, it is also a way of making others feel guilty about honoring the time they need for marginality. In this way, we begin to perpetuate the destructive equation of ministry with work.

—Francis Dorff, Journey from Misery to Ministry: Living Creatively in a Broken World