Well, good morning, church. Happy New Year.

I'm pretty proud of myself. I stayed up until 1230 on New Year's Eve.

And then I polar bear plunged on New Year's Day. I don't know if you can call it polar bear plunging when it's 80 degrees. And we all jumped

in the water and then I looked around and everybody was just standing in the water. Nobody hurried

out. And so it wasn't really much, wasn't really much of a polar bear plunge. And one thing I didn't

get to do was I didn't get to eat my black eyeyed peas and collard greens and cornbread on New Year,

so I'm hoping maybe this afternoon I'll get to do all of that. But how's Christmas for everybody?

Good? Yeah? It's kind of fun seeing all of your middle of the mess posts. But does anybody else feel

like they need a vacation from Christmas vacation? I mean, could there not be a

more hectic, pressing season than like Thanksgiving to Christmas to New Year's? I mean, it's

filled with, it's fun. It's just filled with parties and shopping and trying to get all these things done.

And then everybody's asking you, what are you doing for New Year's Eve?

And do you have a New Year's resolution?

And it seems like we're stepping into a season that is just go, go, go, do, do.

And this morning, what I want to talk about is I want to talk about the Sabbath.

Sabbath is, it just means to cease or to rest. And what I would love is for us collectively as a

people, as a church, to just be able to step into this new year with a with a sense of a deep

rest and a deep soul breath that we could that we wouldn't feel like we need to force and we

need to make and we need to do but I would love it if we would walk out after their time together

and that you would have a

peace deep down in your soul that everything is necessary in life and faith has been accomplished

by Jesus Christ and you can rest in that.

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