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The Darkness That Leads To Light: On Sabbath And Trust (Lectio Divina)
Sabbath is not just a day. It is a practice — and at the heart of that practice is something most of us quietly resist: trust. Evelyn Underhill’s words cut to the center of it: the voice of God is very gentle, and we cannot hear it if we let other voices compete. But…
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Turnkey to the Deeper Life: Sabbath, Stillness, and The Better Part (Lectio Divina)
What does God actually ask of us — and what does Sabbath have to do with it? Drawing on Steve Macchia’s image of Sabbath as the turnkey to the deeper life, this Lectio Divina reflection traces the movement from busyness to faithfulness, from striving to stillness. Along the way it follows Peter out onto…
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All Manner of Not-God: On Sabbath, Restlessness, and the Soul’s Hunger for God (Lectio Divina)
What drives us to labor — and what are we really searching for? Drawing on Beatrice of Nazareth’s account of the soul’s great torment of longing, this Sabbath Lectio Divina traces the spiritual root of all human desire: our soul’s yearning for infinite union with infinite God. Along the way it names the compulsions…
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God’s Soil: On Sabbath Rest and the Soul’s Emergence (Lectio Divina)
What does it mean to truly rest — not merely in sleep or idleness, but in the deep Sabbath stillness where the soul quietly emerges? Drawing on Mark Buchanan’s insight that all living things thrive only by an ample measure of stillness, this Lectio Divina traces the arc from body to mind to soul,…
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Lie Down, Be Still: The Gift of Sabbath Rest in Christ (Lectio Divina)
In this Lectio Divina reflection, Robert Van Valkenburgh begins with a friend’s confession that his life feels like a hamster on a wheel — spinning under the weight of obligations, responsibilities, and everyone else’s needs and agendas. From this honest moment of recognition, the post moves into a meditation on Sabbath not as idleness…
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The Gentleness of God: Receiving The Love That Makes Love Possible (Lectio Divina)
A Sunday Lectio Divina on gentleness, Sabbath rest, and the grace of self-love. Drawing on Thomas Merton’s discovery that deep solitude opens us to a gentleness we can then offer others, this reflection explores how loving our neighbors as ourselves requires first allowing God’s gentle Spirit to work within us. Sabbath becomes the practice…
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Cherished Emptiness: Creating a Sabbath in Your Heart With Macrina Wiederkehr (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Macrina Wiederkehr’s insight that cherished emptiness gives God space in which to work, this Lectio Divina explores what it means to create a Sabbath in the heart — not as mere absence, but as a receptive stillness in which God alone may speak. A meditation on silence, surrender, and our God-shaped capacity…
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A Life Dedicated to the Lord: Sabbath, Surrender, and the Little Way (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Thérèse of Lisieux’s insight that God asks only for surrender and gratitude, this Lectio Divina explores what it means to practice Sabbath not as a single day but as a disposition of the whole life — a perpetual yes to God’s love, learned slowly, in faith and through grace.
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The Ground of Creativity: Sabbath Rest and the God Who Rests With Us (Lectio Divina)
Drawing on Steve Macchia and the Sabbath theology of Genesis, this Lectio Divina explores the relationship between creativity and rest — and invites us to discover that rest is not a pause from our creative lives, but the very ground from which all true creativity flows.
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The Sabbath Was Made for You: Consent to God’s Gift of Rest (Lectio Divina)
When Jesus tells the Pharisees that the sabbath was made for humankind — not the other way around — He is not merely defending human need over religious law. He is revealing something about the nature of the sabbath itself: it is a gift, freely given by a God who knows what we need…