Saturday, December 15, 2007

Sabbath from Imagination

Today as I was trying to rest at least for part of the day, I found myself reaching for a book and having to swat one hand with the other and then grab the remote.

You see, I need a sabbath from imagination from time to time. A sabbath from creating, interacting with, and consuming ideas. A day of leisure.

So many of us live in a world where we are constantly productive. And a day free of production (like me typing these words in order to communicate) seems a waste to a great many of us.

Yet I have a creeping suspicion that we're in need of just that kind of sabbath. Hmm.

2 comments:

Mike Stavlund said...

you'd better not be reading this comment

Unknown said...

yeah, how did it happen that i've started to feel guilty for just watching a football game? (albeit every time it went to commercial my nose was back in a merton text)