How interesting that people who pride themselves on their secularism, even atheism, now see the need to come apart for awhile ("Sabbath's Secular Lure," Faith and Values E-1, Saturday, March 15, 2008). So Jacob Grier spends his Sundays socializing in a coffee shop, unplugging his laptop and conversing with friends. In other words, he is using the seventh day for his form of resting.
As illustrated in Saturday’s article, our society as a whole sees the need for rest, of one kind or another, one day a week. Even as local Anderson people in the last year were loudly proclaiming the "right to shop on Sundays," hence the revocation of the blue laws, now we acknowledge that people do need some time of rest. Ask the small business owners in the mall, who are required to be open seven days, what one day of rest each week would do to help them with staffing, with morale, with being fresh on the job.
Every person alive refers to the "words written on our hearts," as written in Romans 2, even if he refuses to acknowledge them or the One who created these laws. Even F. Scott Fitzgerald, a man not known for his Christian lifestyle, reveals this deep knowledge as he writes with power in GREAT GATSBY of the incredible emptiness of a life of partying and reveling. In our hearts we know what is true, whether we are willing to admit it or not—truth that includes rest on the seventh day as well as much else.
2 comments:
Ann, you are so right. With stores
open on Sundays, other activities follow until Sunday is little different from a weekday. The biggest losers are our families and with weakening of the family structure, our culture follows.
MK
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