When you are tempted to add another steamy dish to your plans for the dinner table or to clean out one more closet; fold that pile of laundry now needing the wrinkle-free cycle or sweep the mess the birds left on the sidewalk,
When you convince yourself that every little thing might fall apart because you haven’t had time to bake for their sleepover,
When that relative you pray will understand you this time and you get that familiar blank look,
When the shoulds on the list are greater in number than passions you’ve pushed off for months,
When you lock yourself in the bathroom, turn on the faucet and let tears stream down your face,
When all your idealism is a landslide of reality piled up at your feet,
Remember that God misses you when you’re busy and
looks forward to dancing cheek-to-cheek on the Sabbath.
God cares more about who you are than what you do.
Peace is sure in His embrace.
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Inspired reading from the Sabbath Society this week:
Reclaiming Sabbath Keeping by Deidra Riggs (and check out Instead while you are over there – it made me laugh.)
How I Thought being a Mom Disqualified me from the Sabbath by Becky Keife
Sabbath in the South by Kris Camealy
Happy Sabbath Friends!
Shelly, so lovely, and such a good reminder for us Type A’s! God longs for our intimate company. Your dancing comment reminds me of the wonderful Kern tune, and I can’t resist including the lyrics here. I don’t mean them irreverantly whatever. I love it when I can read a “double entendre” into lyrics (and except for that line about “the gambler’s lucky streek,” I think they kind of fit what you’re saying). If you don’t like this, please take it down. Happy Sabbath, dearest friend!
Love
Lynn
Heaven, I’m in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek
Heaven, I’m in heaven
And the cares that hung around me through the week
Seem to vanish like a gambler’s lucky streak
When we’re out together dancing, cheek to cheek
Oh, I love to climb a mountain
And to reach the highest peak
But it doesn’t thrill me half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Oh, I love to go out fishing
In a river or a creek
But I don’t enjoy it half as much
As dancing cheek to cheek
Dance with me
I want my arm about you
The charm about you
Will carry me through to heaven
I’m in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek
“When all of your idealism is reality piled up at your feet”………..you are so great at summing it up and with lovely words. I can always just feel your emotions through your words. Love you.
“God cares more about who you are than what you do.” Amen, friend! This I need inked deep in my heart every day.
I was expecting your post to be about types of temptations more closely identified as sin than over-busyness. I agree with Becky Keife below about your statement that God cares more about who we are than what we do. That does indeed need to be inked deep in my heart.
I also LOVE the visual of dancing cheek to cheek with Jesus on the Sabbath! Truth be told, I don’t really know how to dance. Dancing was one of the forbidden activities when I was growing up. But with Jesus, I imagine my feet automatically knowing what to do as we joyfully move as one. Thank you, Shelly!