Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

My name is Rich Velotis.

I'm the lead pastor of New Life Fellowship Church here in Queens, New York City.

And I'm here with Pete Scazzaro.

Pete is the founder of New Life Fellowship, as well as the founder of emotionally healthy

spirituality.

And we've been on a series of podcast looking at different

themes from the book, The Emotionally Healthy Leader. And we've covered things like slowing

down for Loving Union. We've covered things like leading out of your marriage or out of your

singleness. Today we're talking about practicing Sabbath delight. Practicing Sabbath delight.

The Sabbath delight has been a life changer and a life

preserver for me and our family as we have been in leadership. And Pete, this has been a theme

that when we do conferences and what have you, something happens in people when we talk about practicing Sabbath.

Those three words, though, practice, Sabbath, delight.

Can you just unpack each word there before we go into some of the qualities of the Sabbath?

Yeah, I think practice, one is I think think our, we want people actually do it.

I mean, as you know, many of us can preach it, teach it, talk about it, doing it consistently

where there's a rhythm in my life of work and Sabbath, that is the goal, and that's the

life transforming practice.

Secondly, it's Sabbath, and we'll define Sabbath in just a few minutes, I actually take a 24-hour period where I Sabbath to the Lord our God. And thirdly, practice Sabbath delight.

Why do you put that word there? Delight's the key word. I think delight is many aspects of Sabbath, but delight is the core of Sabbath, where God delights in the very first Sabbath. He goes, this is very good.

And really, in the original Hebrew, one of my Old Testament prophets said, it's like saying,

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