Wow! We can’t believe we’ve finished with our study of 7. This Chapter on Stress was a perfect way to end, don’t you think? Andrea shares a bit about how stress has personally affected her life below, click through to read the rest on her blog. We’d love for you to add your voice to the conversation, too!

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{Via Andrea @ Easily Amused}

I used to think the Sabbath was a day of rest, a day set aside to forgo daily activities for prayer and contemplation and worship. But I believe that Christ’s resurrection means I have already entered the Sabbath. Every day is a day devoted to fasting, prayer, and rest. Every day is a day to know peace and Him and live in that confidence. With every moment of my waking and sleeping life, my life is a liturgy of this rest and peace as a devotion to Him. The whole of it is the taking up of my cross and following Him. It is just that I sometimes forget about it not just being for church services, small group, and while reading my Bible.

Jen observes rest with a Sabbath day and 7 pauses for prayer throughout the day. I assumed she would cut 7 activities out of her life for this chapter. No, and what she does do is much more meaningful. This was definitely my favorite chapter. The seven sacred pauses are The Night Watch, The Awakening Hour, The Blessing Hour, The Hour of Illumination, The Wisdom Hour, The Twilight Hour, and The Great Silence. Many great things were said of these pauses. Many. On 195 in such beautiful phrasing, “These are not a yoke of bondage, but breathing spells for the soul. Remember the point. Don’t miss the forest for the trees, even if the trees come in rapid succession all day, making them impossible to keep up with; then they conspire against you on the Sabbath like a haunted forest.”

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