Sanctuaries

# Chapter 330

Rest days, Sabbaths, weekends or whatever you want to call them, are a critical part of great health. That meant for me, a motorcycle, winding roads, cool mountain vistas and wind in my ears for hours and hours. For you it may mean something else entirely. As long as you weren’t doing your “regular” everyday email, social media, or going to the office, whatever that may mean for you in the modern world. Anytime I have my phone with me I am in mortal danger of being “at work”. Its one of the best upsides to being in Georgia and working on the farm, in that I often can’t have my phone with me while doing farm chores. And that was the point of the 2.5 hour trek through the mountains on my motorcycle yesterday, while my phone was physically with me, it was inaccessible while navigating those roads. Perhaps it will help you if you build some blocked out time and days to rest. A good break requires practice.

Not the partying drinking kind of practice, but the quiet, solitude, contemplative, unplugged, I-am-in-neutral kind of time where you stop all forward motion and just be. This can be so very challenging to achieve/find in our hustle-focused world. But you need this and you likely won’t believe that until you are experiencing it and realize this gapping hole of need that you had inside for a quiet moment and some peace. I recently had one of those moment on the Chesapeake Bay on my friends boat. We had a rocking storming Saturday night with tremendous lightening and thunder, and then a supernaturally calm Sunday morning where all kinds of important conversations happened, and fishing happened, and communing with God happens. Best sanctuary ever. Slow down or die early.