“Slaves cannot skip a day of work, but free people can. Not all free people choose to do so, however; some of us remain glued to our computers and washing machines every day of the week. To keep sabbath is to exercise one’s freedom, to declare oneself to be neither a tool to be employed—an employee—nor a beast to be burdened. To keep sabbath is also to remember one’s freedom and to recall the One from whom that freedom came, the One from whom it still comes.”
Dorothy Bass
Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time