Harder to Breathe

It's been a while since I've had a day just to reconnect. On the one hand, a Sabbath seems like such a luxury; what about all those people that have to work every single day just to make ends meet? I'm reminded, though, that the Sabbath is about faith and blessing; it takes trust for a person to accept their limitations and embrace this idea of blessing that comes from God and not from me (me in the subjective first-person sense…I know that blessing doesn't come from me ☺). I realize I haven't been posting as much as I have wanted. Part of the reason comes out of me writing this Obama post that just never seems to get finished. But the bigger part of the reason comes from being unable to nail down this Sabbath. I look at the calendar and sometimes it looks like a tsunami of appointments, events, and responsibilities. It's hard to catch a breath sometimes. I'm definitely looking for some direction here… I wonder if it's just that I'm not as committed to the idea of rest, of faith, of trust…the foundations of a Sabbath.