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“This was why sex was the messy magic at the center of life. It didn’t always make sense, but the power was undeniable.”

So many emotions…so much drama…how will it end?

Introduction
“What I have grown to learn is that the Sabbath is the key that unlocks a civil society and a free people, and it could be the secret answer to restore self-government in America.”

Prologue
“We are, in many ways, a Sabbathless people: wandering, overworked, and longing - without even knowing for what. …I desire to bring all humanity back to God’s design to rest for an entire day. To cease working, to STOP, in the name of GOD.”

Prologue
“As America has abandoned the Sabbath, we have watched nearly every major marker of health - emotional, spiritual, communal - begin to fail. We are more productive and less peaceful, more connected digitally and more isolated relationally. We are overstimulated, undernourished, distracted, discontent, and desperately lonely. …”

Prologue
“This is a manifesto against the machine of modern life. It is a call to war against the endless noise and the ceaseless worry that have slowly robbed you of your joy, your wonder, and your rest.”

“This is a love story and it is better, by far, than any of the ones I have dreamed up in the past. If I’m allowed a wish, just one, then it is this: I wish for our story to have a happy ending.”

From a book I didn’t want to finish to a book I can’t put down! 4 chapters to go - and a lot of questions to be answered.

Started out slow, wasn’t sure I would keep reading, then passion & plot twist…

Forward by Erika Kirk:
“Honoring the Sabbath became his defiance against that lie. It was his declaration that a man’s value is not measured by his output and productivity level, but by his surrender.”