Hey everybody, John Mark Commer here. Welcome to the Bridgetown Daily for Friday, May 15th.

To end our week, I have a very short Sabbath meditation for you.

Commer's Sabbath Friday night to Saturday night, I know that most of you Sabbath on Sundays,

which is great, much better for most of you. But all of us are moving, I hope, in theory

toward an entire day, sometime over the weekend, set aside for rest and worship. But that is a bit tricky

of late, right? I mean, it's weird to Sabbath in a season where we're home all week long, and a lot of

us have to be on our devices all the time. There's an article going around from the BBC entitled,

The Reason Zoom Calls Drain Your Energy. And when I read it was just like, ah, there is all the

science behind my felt experience of Zoom fatigue. One doctor in it was quoted as saying, most of our

social roles happen in different places, think about home or restaurant or bar or work or church. But now

the context has collapsed. Imagine if you go into a bar and in the same bar you talk with your

professors, meet your parents or date someone. Isn't that a little weird? That's what we're all doing now.

We're confined in our own space in the context of a very anxiety-provoking crisis. And our only

space for interaction is a computer window. And in our current at home, you know, kind of hyper digital

reality for however long this goes on, it's very hard to demarcate a kind of line between work and

rest and play and worship. The line is blurry. And in particular because a lot of the point of

technology is to blur the line, something like Instagram, which is designed to blur the line

between Jesus and work and friends and family and all of it. So it's really easy in the digital

ether to get an unembodied lack of rhythm. So one thing we do to sanctify or set apart the Sabbath

as a special day. And we did this pre-pandemic as well in our family is start with some kind of a

ritual and end with one as well. So to start at sundown on Friday night, you know, we light the candle

and we pour a glass of wine and we read a song or a poem and then we have a little liturgy. It's

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