It's as simple as Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd, and he will lead and as a sheep I follow.

And when he says, go, I need to go.

And if he says, stay, I need to stay and not run ahead of him.

And if he says to wait, to wait.

And those times can be really challenging. It's not as simple as

just what I just described when we have to live it out.

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Erin, I am really excited to have a conversation with you about the experience that I had.

This was last summer.

Okay.

And I took my first sabbatical.

So working for the organization I work for were allowed a sabbatical

every seven years of up to three months. Wow. And I had never taken one up until last year. So I was

way overdue because I've been working for them for 35 years. And sabbatical is similar to the idea of

Sabbath where God on the seventh day,

after he created everything, he set aside a day of rest, that He, God actually rested, declared

everything as good. So fascinating is that the first people, Adam and Eve, their first day of existence was rest. And then from rest,

God had given them the cultural mandate to take care of the animals and to work the ground and

harvest the soil. God had just built this into the system. And so this rhythm of rest is one that God commands his people, you know, so every seven days. So I had been taking, you know, for a good number of years now, I've tried to, like, protect a 24-hour Sabbath. Yeah. So for me, it's been like Saturday. What is a Sabbath?

Sabbath, yeah.

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