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Rest And Refreshment

We need a regular break from the stress in our lives.
"Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. …
"Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed."

Character Check
What one change in my lifestyle could increase my delight in God?

In Business Terms Work must be regularly balanced with plenty of play. This isn't easy. Work-especially when it's satisfying-dons the regal robes of Importance and tyrannizes everything else. Play seems too small a thing to approach the throne ...

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