Easter Day 7
Psalm
62:2
Only in God is my soul at rest
All week it has been time and rest that have
been on my mind. Big time, fast time, slow time, God's time…chronological
time. And it takes rest to think about time!
Who better than Rabbi Heschel to offer a word
about time and about rest:
The
meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a
week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to
become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day on which we are called
upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of
creation to the creation of the world....
The
seventh day is like a palace in time with a kingdom for all. It is not a
date but and atmosphere....
[A
legend says:] "Angels have six wings, one for each day of the week, with
which they chant their song; but they remain silent on the Sabbath, for it is
the Sabbath which chants a hymn to God." It is the Sabbath that
inspires all the creatures to sing praise to the Lord.*
Moving
from results to creation...that sounds like moving from looking back to looking
ahead…maybe from analyzing to dreaming?
Just
rest Cindy.
*Abraham Heschel, from The Sabbath, It's Meaning for
Modern Man, 1951, as quoted
in An Easter
Sourcebook: The Fifty Days, p25, Edited by Gabe Huck, Gail Ramshaw, and
Gordon Lathrop...which I am loving as my 50 day prayer companion;)
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