Week Five

In the Deuteronomy version of the 10 Commandments (Deut. 5:12-15), the Exodus event, the liberation of the Hebrew people from enslavement in Egypt, is given as the reason to keep Sabbath. Sabbath is a proclamation of liberation. Sabbath is resistance. As you claim some sabbath for yourself today, consider how your rest is bound up with your own liberation. How it is bound up with the liberation of others?

*Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance, Little, Brown Spark, 2022, digital ed. p. 92.

31 Basic Human Needs

As you eat, drink, and breathe today, take notice. Wonder and delight at how every living thing on this planet must do these things. Consider the ways that we all share the same oxygen, the same earth which grows our food, and the water which cycles through our planet and nourishes every one of us. Connect with someone around these realities, and consider the beauty inherent therein and the inequities experienced around these needs throughout the world.

Delight Radar

Turn on your “delight radar”* today and take note of everything in which you delight today. Share about your delights with someone else today. Consider how doing this every day - noticing and sharing - might transform the world.