Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Sabbath

  • Work is a part of life. But being busy isn’t necessary. We keep ourselves busy to avoid things we actually want to do.

  • Keeping a flexible schedule is really convenient, but it requires heavy personal effort to maintain boundaries.

  • Less Work

    Jesus doesn’t simply defy Sabbath law: he compels us all to see that the true purpose of the law is that is for all.

  • Maintaining habits on vacation can be difficult. And sometimes we just don’t want to. But there is no wrong way.

  • For SundayEighth Sunday after Pentecost Collect Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, you know our necessities before we ask and our ignorance in asking: Have compassion on our weakness, and mercifully give us those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask; through the worthiness of your…

  • The time Jesus breaks the law to fulfill it. By healing people. Which shouldn’t be such a big deal. But totally is.