Keeping the Sabbath
“If you keep the Sabbath, you start to see creation not as somewhere to get away from your ordinary life, but a place to frame an attentiveness to your life.”[i]—Eugene H. Peterson, The Message: The Bible in Contemporary
Note
[i] Eugene Peterson, The Pastor: A Memoir (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 270. See also Eugene Peterson, quoted in Andy Crouch, “The Joyful Environmentalists: Eugene Peterson and Peter Harris Think of Creation Care Not as an Onerous Duty but a Natural Response to the Goodness of God,” Christianity Today 55, no. 6 (2011): 32.