How do you keep Sabbath when you’re a mom and constantly needed? What does Sabbath look like when you love working and taking a break sounds like The Worst? What do you do when kids’ activities interfere with Sabbath rest?

Author Mark Buchanan addresses these questions and so much more in the third episode of our Spiritual Health series. 

Through this series, we’ll walk through 5 spiritual disciplines: 

Key Quotes

  • “Sabbath is imitating God in order to remember I’m not Him.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “Sabbath is God inviting us into His own rest and coming to a fresh awareness of who I am and whose I am.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “The crowning act of creation is God stopping.”- Author Mark Buchanan
  • “It’s a lifetime project to deepen and anchor myself in the reality of the real, living, generous presence of God.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “The more we know God, the more we can turn off the noise in our heads.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “All the evil one has is the power to sabotage you.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “The evil one can’t create a thing, but he can mess with God’s creation. That’s his whole gig. ”- Author Mark Buchanan
  • “We ought not ever to downplay that we are called to a task and we are actually expected to engage the heart, mind, soul, and body.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “Busyness erodes our attentiveness.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “If I had to distill Sabbath to one practice, it would be: Pay attention.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “When you’re busy, it’s so easy to miss everything, including yourself.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “Play is wasting time in the best sense of the word.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “If I’m a poor listener with people, I’ll be a poor listener with God.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “If you  keep hearing the same thing through very many channels, pay a lot of attention to that.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “The kingdom is among you in the form of your child and HGod is well-pleased if a ton of your energy is turned toward being a good mom.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “Relax. Your Sabbath is actually being with your child.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “If you’re imposing religious structure to the fostering of rich relationship, we got it wrong.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “Don’t equate Sabbath with stillness but attentiveness.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “If there’s not an overflow to your Sabbath, you probably weren’t taking one.” – Author Mark Buchanan
  • “The Sabbath was put in place to keep us.” – Author Mark Buchanan

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About Mark Buchanan

Mark is an associate professor of Pastoral Theology at Ambrose Seminary. He enjoys scuba diving, fishing, and motorcycles. 

He is the author of ten books, including his most recent novel David: Rise, which is Book One in a trilogy on the life of King David, and God Walk: Moving at the Speed of Your Soul. 

He and his wife Cheryl lead New Story Community, a ministry that promotes the flourishing of Indigenous women. 

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