Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

I have just reread this book as it seemed that my life was becoming too busy again. The fact that I had to reread this book shows how strong of a hold society has on my own life. This book is simple. It is just a reminder of things we already know, but overlook. This book offered me the necessary arguments to change current habits. I found a guilt free way to relax from this book. This book also offers up some important American history regarding economics and work ethics. Money is not always the answer. How much is enough? This book enabled me to set personal boundries and to feel good about it. I have given this book to just about everyone that I know, close friend or acquaintance. I am currently debating whether or not to give it to my local politicians; they, too, need reminding! Do not allow the cover to deceit you. I am a christian and enjoyed it thoroughly. I also have friends of Eastern religions who have enjoyed this book as well. This is a wise investment!

I’ve come back to this text time and time again. The call, for followers of Jesus, to Sabbath is clear. But the practice sometimes feels a bit allusive in a culture shaped by hurry. This is a great resource to offer thoughtful practices, but reminders of the heart of Sabbath.

This book, read in conjunction with Anne LeClaire's Listening Below the Noise, is a perfect recipe for solace and sanity in a world gone mad with busyness and noise. Wayne Muller describes how the natural rhythms of nature include a period of rest (day/night, summer/winter), and plants and trees cannot seed, flower, and bear fruit without rest. Humans, too, need this time of withdrawal/renewal, and in the not too distant past, most cultures did include a day of rest, or sabbath, as a basic part of the week. Some still do, but western society has lost this connection to peaceful time apart from daily life's responsibilities and activities. Our physical and mental health suffer for the loss. This book jogs our collective memory and points us in a direction that will help us recover balance in our lives. Excellent cultural/historical information combined with diverse spiritual traditions. Peggy Kornegger author of Living with Spirit, Journey of a Flower Child

This books expands thinking about Sabbath beyond legalism. It approaches the subject experientially and invites the reader to engage rest in many forms. Great read.

If you need peace, beauty and help for slowing own your life this book is for you. It isn't about the structured religious Sabbath with a list of don'ts that hinge more on boredom than renewal. It is about finding life and peace from slowing down or stopping altogether. Some of the ideas are for moments throughout your day. Others are for setting aside a specific day, or a portion of a day to practice the life giving aspects of a Sabbath day. This is an intense book of spiritual growth.

This is the easiest book for spiritual learning that I have read in a long time. The sections are beautifully written and brief enough to read and sink into in one sitting. The practices that follow touch down so realistically in ordinary lives that I found myself saying, "I've done that." Reading this serves as a reminder of all the things you know and have tried to practice in the past and encourages the desire to be much more mindful of the delight we miss in a world that wants to rob us of the rhythm of rest and work. We are reading this as a group, and finding both rest and delight in our conversations about the book.

Just by reading it you feel such inner peace...This book is written with such prose of art, and mindfulness, and serenity...It is not geared towards a religious thought but provokes us to think about rest and how rest is practiced in different religions accross the globe. It is a beautiful book that takes you on a journey to your own soul, a place of stillness and quiet, where your light awaits freedom. Absolutelly recommend this book no matter what religion you practice. Beautiful book!

This is one of the best, most important books ever written. It is life changing. It is precious and I always keep it at hand because picking it up and reading in it anywhere lowers me BP noticeably and puts me into a peaceful state. It is a JOYOUS read and I have been recommending to to everyone I know. I have put the concept of keeping a Sabbath into practice and I love what it is doing for my state of mind and emotions. Sabbath is a gift and so is Wayne Muller. (And no, I'm not related to the man; I've never even met him.)

One of the few books to have in your personal library. A book I can keep going back to.

I read this book while on a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical sabbatical. It is the best book I have read in years... a life changer for me! I plan on coming back to it again, and again!

I love this book. I recommand it highly. One thing in partciular I loved is the pratical exemple of real people's life about how to create space and a sens of sacred in our simple lifes.

This book taught something find essentiel in life: Learning how to give ourselves space and time to nurture what is really important for us. I recommand this book to anyone and I mean everyone A gem of a book

Great book. Every Christian should read it! The most ignored commandment!