Lizzy Brannan’s Reviews > Sacred Strides: The Journey to Belovedness in Work and Rest > Status Update

“I think it’s appropriate to feel personally connected to your work. It is another thing entirely to identify AS the work. “

“The practice of rest is the primary way I’m regularly learning to wrestle loose of the grip lesser stories have on me, so I can see myself the way God sees me and maybe pass along some of that same vision to people I care about.”

“ Sabbath resistance isn’t as much a blanket critique of organizational and institutional growth as it is a call to evaluate what we mean by ‘growth’.”.

“May I never sacrifice
My health and wholeness
On the alter of productivity;
Let my work be rooted
In my full humanity and in grace.”

“ In in the practice of rest, I’ve learned that the storms and their seriousness shouldn’t set the tone for my life. The love of God for the world should do that. If I live my life at the pace of the agencies around me, I will almost certainly drown-and it won’t be the storms around me that does it; it’ll be the unrest and chaos within me.“

“Being tired all the time isn’t a sign of professionalism any more than being injured is a sign of athletic prowess. For someone calling themselves a ‘professional’, exhaustion is a sign that something needs to change.”