Keeping the Sabbath Holy

This sunday our pastor taught on keeping the sabbath day holy. He gave us this quote by Abraham Heschel that pierced my heart!

“He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. He must go away from the screech of dissonant days, from the nervousness and fury of acquisition and the betrayal of embezzling his own life. He must say farewell to manual work and learn to understand that the world has already been created and will survive without the help of man. Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our souls belong to Someone Else.”(Abraham Heschel “A Palace in Time” in The Ten Commandments William Brown (Editor), p 214)

Oh how I need to be reminded, at least once a week, that my soul belongs to Someone Else! I love the thought of caring for the seek of eternity that was planted in my soul.