Delight is meant to be a shared reality.

In the scriptures, delight is connected to this imagery of bending yourself towards something or towards someone.

There's a bending in me, not just for my own gratification or my own self-satisfaction, but for something else.

And then in that giving or in that bending,

there's an expansion of the delight I've received.

So delight is much more, it should be, much more than just a personal experience.

It's one, it's an experience that's meant to be multiplied.

You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.

In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance

for the modern era. This is Season 1, Sabbath.

Thank you. Season 1, Sabbath. Episode 3.

Now we are to the good part.

To recap, we broke down the Sabbath into four movements.

Based on four translations or interpretations of the Hebrew verb, Shabbat or Sabbath.

They are... Stop.

Stop.

Brian? Rest. Delight and worship. There. That was not even planned right there. I felt like some kind of 90s church experience. That was off the cuff, people.

Yes. If you have made it this far, it's about to get good because next up is delight.

We wanted, when the three of us were crafting the Sabbath practice,

if we're practicing the way, we wanted to start with delight just because it's our favorite

and it's the most fun.

But you kind of have to, like, you know, set the foundation of stop and rest first before you get to delight.

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