The clocks have ‘fallen back’ here in the UK. It’s easy
enough to change all the clocks (except in the cars!!!), but it’s more
challenging to change my body clock. I’m thinking dinner an hour before I
should be, and same with bedtime.
So much of what we do is determined by outside, artificial
factors. Often it has to be; if we are to have any social interaction, we need
to all be adhering to the same clock.
I wonder if that’s one thing we should/could relax when we
take sabbath rest. Whichever day that is. Would it not be a relief to be emancipated
from the tyranny of time for one day a week, and move to our own rhythm?
I wonder if God had that in mind as an aspect of sabbath?
After all, he lives outside of time. Maybe there is a sense in which there is
real relief in just embracing freedom from clock-watching, even if only for a
few hours? (I’m laughing – obviously then I’ll have to watch the clock if it’s ‘only
for a few hours’, so I know when my freedom is over!)
Just a thought.
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