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Exodus 20:8-11 and Mark 6:30-32

During this season of Lent we Brothers are inviting you to explore with us our relationship to time.  We believe time is a gift from God, and that often we abuse that gift by rushing through life, or by overcrowding our days, or by squandering our time on things of lesser importance.  We want to imagine with you how we might reorder our relationship with time, so that it may be the gift God intended it to be in our lives.  Tonight we’ll be focusing on our need to stop and to slow down. Then, over the next four weeks, we’ll be asking how we can make time to pray, how we can manage our time for work, how we can incorporate play into our days, and how we can take time to love.

Most of us are aware of how the pace of life has quickened.  Undoubtedly this has been the case over the whole course of human history, but in the last few centuries, with industrialization and the advancement of technology, the pace of life has increased dramatically.  A study done in 2006 showed that the pace at which people moved in large cities had increased by 10% since the early 1990’s. (1) As a result of this quickened pace, many people today are suffering from higher levels of stress and anxiety, from the lack of adequate sleep and physical exercise, and from a constant pressure to produce.  Many of us find it difficult to keep up with the demands of modern life.  We are constantly in motion, moving from one task to another.  We have forgotten how to stop. Read More