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The Wandering Anglican


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Taking time away is very important.
If you don’t take time away, you wind up resenting your congregation.

Submitted by: Frpaulas

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In a recent visit to my father, he talked about the pastor of his congregation as “working too hard”. I suggested that the problem might be that his pastor doesn’t know how to observe the Sabbath. Perhaps he doesn’t see the moral and practical role of the Sabbath in any person’s life and especially in the life of a pastor.
I make a distinction between “taking a day off” and “observing a Sabbath”. Days off are for recreation, home work, etc. But Sabbaths are days to enjoy physical rest and have a “day with God.”
Since Sundays are exceptionally busy and fatiguing I consider it my moral duty (as well as delight (Is 58:13)) to observe another day of the week as a Sabbath.
I’m not sure this is what you mean by “time away” but sometimes I do get out of town (Washington DC) to observe the Sabbath, but my focus is not travel and recreation, but time with God. I have the opportunity on many of my Sabbaths, to worship at the Wednesday communion at Fr Paul Zahl’s congregation in Chevy Chase. That is an expecial joy to have some Christian community experience as part of a personal Sabbath.
If anyone is interested, I’d love to talk more about my experience.
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