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- If we want to be Jesus-oriented and counter-cultural, we can do so via the way we find rest and sabbath
- Jesus was unquestionably busy, but he was never hurried. What might that imply in our own lives?
- Jesus didn’t heal everyone, yet he still saved the world.
- Many of us find ourselves busier than we ought to be because we’re doing things Christ never called us to
- Is there something you should be adding to your to-don’t list?
- Sometimes we can find rest by learning to receive and allowing others to help
- Sometimes the help God’s trying to provide us isn’t exactly what we’re looking for (like sabbath), but we still need to learn to receive
- St. Augustine said that our hearts won’t ever find rest, until we find our rest in god
- One way of looking at the creation story of God resting, is that it obviously wasn’t because he was tired, but because he was so satisfied with his work that he could step back from it. How might the end of your days be like this? 

I’m sure many of you have many more thoughts, feel free to comment on the blog post. Practically what I hope we can all commit to receiving the gift of sabbath in some way

- this could be a full literal day of god, rest, and non-productivity
- broken chunks throughout a week
- committing to not doing something any longer
- scheduling a personal retreat
- other creative expressions?

Here are the slides with the passage and images from the message this past sunday if you missed it or wanted some recall.

What do you think?

I’m not saying we all need to be poor.  The opposite of greed is not poverty, but generosity.

How might you be intentional and strategic about living a life of generosity and not greed or selfishness?

What would it look like to not plan your life towards independence, and not needing one another, or God himself, but planning on a life of generosity that needs inter-dependence & community in return?

There’s a quote by bono i believe in the song a beautiful day that goes along the lines of - what you don’t have already, you don’t need now’.  Could there be some truth in that?

Slides from last Sunday’s talk if you want a quick refresher.
(Our primary texts was the life of Caleb through Numbers 13-14, and Joshua 14)