Creation and Resurrection

As we travel this one brilliant life, we work to create while learning to rest in the Creator. We discern what is our work to do while learning to release that which is not within our responsibility or skill set.

Too often we are frustrated that others seem unwilling to help or do their share, then we catch a glimpse of ourselves in the mirror, and we’re the one holding all the balls.

It’s hard for others to pick up what we refuse to put down.

It’s taken me many years, likely too many, to learn what is my work to do and what I need to let lay for others. I serve on a team that asks that I stick to my work, as they brilliantly go about accomplishing theirs. I am not looking over my shoulder or wondering if others are getting their work done. This is wildly inspiring, and it encourages me to do my absolute best at what is mine to do.

Which leads me to a prayer for inviting Sabbath rest to reinvigorate the creative soul:

Creator, create in us a new rhythm of life

composed of hours that sustain rather than stress,

of days that deliver rather than destroy,

of time that tickles the soul rather than tackles the flesh.

Resurrector, raise up in us a rhythm of your new life,

that we would be dead to deceitful calendars,

dead to fleeting friend requests,

dead to the emptiness of only accomplishment.

To our packed-full planner, we bid “Peace!”

To our over-caffeinated consciences, we say, “Cease!”

To our suffocating selves, Liberator, grant release.

Drowning in a sea of deadlines and death chimes,

we rest in You, our eternal lifeline.

As we enter into Your Sabbath rest, may Your Sabbath rest enter into us.

Amen.