Day 10 - I've done absolutely nothing.

Day 10.
So if you listened to my preach this morning and decided to check out my daily blog -welcome, and today's underpants were also made in Honduras ('cos they're the same pair as the other day - freshly washed!)
Sunday. Preached on the Ritual of Altar Making. Came home.
Felt like a simple preach with not great theological content - but if people grasped that maybe if they stopped / slowed down to build the altar/memorial that in itself could be the best help they give their spiritual formation in 2010.

Or ...maybe I'm trying to justify the stopping I've done all afternoon. Discovered Yogurt Coated Raspberry Liquorice from Australia (via Target) and ate the whole packet as I played on my Netbook and finished off watching Kelly's Heroes 40th anniversary showing (a young Clint Eastwood and Kiefer Sutherland's dad!) I've done nothing all afternoon.

The Sabbath principle is "stopping" principle. A day of stopping, doing nothing, and reminding yourself that the world is still spinning; sun rising, sun setting etc, etc .....and your stopping reminds you that you have absolutely no role in it. You are stopped - producing nothing - and eac Shabbath is God's way of helping you and me have an honest appreciation of who we are and more importantly who we aren't.
Yep - my intentional Christ following today was to do nothing!!