Pause to Awe

“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”― William James

“In our own contemporary context of the rat race of anxiety, the celebration of Sabbath is an act of both resistance and alternative. It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.”― Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now

No to faster, urgent, hustle, noise, opinion, judgment, complaint, comparison, cynicism, fear.
Yes to slow, important, presence, allowing, beauty, joy, wonder, delight, enthusiasm, kindness, love.
No’s and Yes’s that bring us to this day fully.
Pathway to gratitude, grace, rest.
Pause to awe.

“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”― William James