Take a Day

The importance of having a Sabbath..

I now understand the necessity of a Sabbath. I have noticed more and more lately that I am having problems staying organized. I miss place things all the time. I have no schedule.

I work in the retail industry, so my schedule changes every week. I also have a second job the it takes up a lot of my time.

After working 7 days a week for over a year, I decided that I need at least 1 day off. I claimed Saturday as my Sabbath. I did this for about a month. That was the month that I was closest to God. I worked my whole week with determination because I knew that my Sabbath was coming. I could prepare for what I was going to do. On my day off. I would spring clean my home with my family. We would turn on some tunes and would clean while dancing around and singing. I felt that, as I organized my house and cleaned everything, I was cleaning myself. I was removing all junk inside me that could trap any darkness. It is a freeing experience.

This allowed my weeks to be better as well. I stayed more focused. I was able to complete tasks better and drive myself forward. Even through all the hell I was going through.

After that month, my schedule went back to being unpredictable. I notice that my energy is gone. My depression kept creeping back in and sometimes I can't keep up. My finances and home are being attack. Every aspect of my life is being stirred up and it feels out of control. However, out of all that mess, I now understand the absolute importance of a Sabbath. It doesn't have to be Saturday, but I believe the message of the Sabbath is to be a consistent day every week. The same day. If you prefer Thursdays, then it needs to be every Thursday. When you have that day and you claim it yours, things start to change.

We are overworked and have no consistency. Social media is disconnecting us and affecting memory more and more everyday. We need to start giving ourselves one day a week that we put everything up and do what heals our soul. We need to regain the connection to our self that we have lost due to every outside source. We lose the fact that we are wonderful all by ourselves. That, what makes everyone else happy does not make us happy.

The joy and happiness I experience when I take 1 day a week to do what makes me happy is revealing. I start to see the patterns in my life. I see that it doesn't matter what they want, because what they want does not make me happy. I used to care more about what other people wanted. I did not do what made me happy. Instead, I did what they wanted just so they would like me. My Sabbath taught me this great lesson. It is not about everyone else. It is about the everlasting, powerful and loving force of God inside of me.

Take a Sabbath to do what you want. Do what feeds your soul and not your head.