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In Search of Nothing….
It would be nice to see all of mankind once again value and respect the sabbath, as I remember even in my earlier years. It seems there is nothing to leisure time anymore. No time to spend with loved ones, nothing but people working, and working and working.
I think if we all took that one day a week, free from all worldly commitments and looked in the eyes of nature and find the mighty hand behind it all, what a difference it would make. To stop and look up at the stars at night, to walk through mountain brooks and pasture streams and feel the cool trickling water rush beside our feet, oh what a stress relief.
Just to experience true freedom, if only for a day, once a week or even once a month. To find and have a peaceful mind, free from emotions and thinking.
Make it a point to live each one of these days the happiest day of your life, until the next day.
I love to be alone at times, it gives me the moment to reflect and give thanks. Being alone can be a great companion, there is satisfaction in solitude. The value and respect for the sabbath has declined greatly. There was a reason God made it a commandment.
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Comments
Deborah,
Among the many things to love about life in a rural Montana town is the fact that just about everything in town is closed on Sunday. After over two decades in cities, this was an absolutely welcome treat. I’m sure some restless newcomers might find it inconvenient, but I love it. To know that there will be one day without commerce and that friends will be around instead of working or shopping. . .ah. This is the time to head to our mountains, visit local churches to see what those communities are about, take the dogs to the river to watch the geese migrate and the white pelicans catch fish, or even watch a favorite football team. . .anything but getting and spending and laying waste our powers (as your friend Thoreau put it). [Although I'll be the first to admit, watching football is probably a bit of laying waste.] Anyway, good points all.
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