Sabbath Rest

God’s call to rest, to be still and know that he is God, is a calendared event as well as a disposition of the heart. For my husband Dave and me, in addition to our daily quiet times, it is the primary spiritual discipline that has set the sails for our marriage, family life, and ministry. It includes Sabbath rest, commanded and modeled in Genesis 2:2-3, where the pattern of six plus one in the week was established. But it is also nestled against the backdrop of …