Only sacrifice your leisure for something worthy
“There is, it sometimes seems, an excess of religious and social busyness these days, a round of committees and conferences and journeyings, of which the cost in ‘peaceable wisdom’ is not sufficiently counted. Sometimes we appear overmuch to count as merit our participation in these things… At least we ought to make sure that we sacrifice our leisure for something worthy.
True leisureliness is a beautiful thing and may not lightly be given away. Indeed, it is one of the outstanding and most wonderful features of the life of Christ that, with all his work in preaching and healing and planning for the Kingdom, he leaves behind this sense of leisure, of time in which to pray and meditate, to stand and stare at the cornfields and fishing boats, and to listen to the confidences of neighbours and passers-by…”
— Caroline C. Graveson, 1937
English Quaker educator
Today’s Invitation
Do not give your leisureliness away lightly.
This Week’s Query
What do you do to care for yourself, a beloved child of God?
What are the spiritual fruits of rest? What restores you?
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