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Still Saturday: Surrender

May 29, 2015 By Sandra Heska King

SABBATH SURRENDER

 

 

Sabbath requires surrender . . .

If we refuse rest until we are finished, we will never rest until we die.

Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days,

because it liberates us 

from the need to be finished.

~Wayne Muller in Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest

 

WHITE GERANIUM

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In the stillness,

Sandy

 

Sandra Heska King - Still Saturday

Welcome to the Still Saturday Community where we pause after a busy week, move in quiet pilgrimage, maybe linger a while in some still place, and soak in the beauty of images and reflect on the depth of sparse words. We’d love for you to join us. Grab the button and link up below. We all love to hear if something especially speaks to your heart, but please don’t feel pressured to comment. Simply take some time to be still together, to gaze long and drink deep.

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  1. Terri Presser says

    May 29, 2015 at 7:17 pm

    Thanks for hosting this beautiful link up each week, it is such a blessing to stop by. Have a great weekend. Blessings

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 29, 2015 at 10:23 pm

      Thanks so much, Terri. I’m so glad you’re here.

  2. Elizabeth Stewart says

    May 30, 2015 at 12:33 am

    This quote is so convicting. I am notorious at not resting til I’m finished.

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 30, 2015 at 7:52 am

      And yet… if we rest, we have more energy to finish what needs to be finished. Yet if we stop to rest, maybe we won’t ever finish. In which case, maybe it never needed to be done to begin with. 😉

      Balance. The only thing really worth finishing is the race.

  3. Joanne Viola says

    May 30, 2015 at 6:18 am

    This >>> Sabbath … “liberates us from the need to be finished.” So very convicting. So very needed.

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 30, 2015 at 7:49 am

      Yes. And can we really grasp that until we finally stop and still? Have a beautiful weekend, Joanne.

  4. Patricia @ Pollywog Creek says

    May 30, 2015 at 7:22 am

    Such a wonderful quote – and we don’t have to finish because Jesus did.

    Love you my beautiful friend. Have a great weekend. xoxox

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 30, 2015 at 7:48 am

      Exactly. Tetelestai!

      Love you more.

  5. Michele Morin says

    May 30, 2015 at 8:17 am

    So much truth here, I’m gulping it in.
    “Liberates us from the need to be finished”
    “artificial urgency”
    Thank you for this.
    Praying for you and family.

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 31, 2015 at 8:38 am

      I’m drinking it, too, Michele. And we’re grateful for your prayers.

  6. Andrew Budek-Schmeisser says

    May 30, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    I am here for the first time; I like this place, these people.

    I have a different take on surrender, because I actually AM dying. I rest when I must, but this has become a round-the-click action replay of Isandlwana.

    I’ve blown the last daisy-chain of claymores, Charlie’s through the wire, and it’s time to call a fire mission onto my own position.

    Maybe, after the dust clears and the screaming stops, there will be peace.

    But not today. Today we fight.

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 31, 2015 at 9:20 am

      Andrew… you have a way with words. I’m reading your comment over and over–and I have no words. I’ve been to your blog and read your words, your story–and I have no words.

      I do have tears.

      I’m so honored you’ve slipped in here.

      Keep fighting the good fight. For yourself. For your wife. For us.

      Please don’t die.

  7. Laurie Collett says

    May 30, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    May we surrender to His Spirit and rest in His grace! Thanks for the uplifting post and for hosting and God bless!

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 31, 2015 at 9:21 am

      Yes. Thank you, Laurie.

  8. Dawn says

    May 31, 2015 at 12:09 pm

    I so look forward to this offering of stillness you share each week, thank you! Each deposit is a gentle restiring of that saceed rhythm that rest allows us to operate from.
    Blessings,
    Dawn

    • Sandra Heska King says

      May 31, 2015 at 7:35 pm

      Oh my, Dawn. Those are beautiful words. Thank you.

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