Keeping the Sabbath Wholly

Keeping the Sabbath Wholly : Ceasing, Resting, Embracing, Feasting By Marva J. Dawn

Marva Dawn's "Keeping the Sabbath Wholly" is one of a half-dozen books I try to keep on hand at all times to give away to friends and fellow readers. I try to warn people when I give it to them, however, saying, "Be careful when you start to read this book, because it will very likely change your life from that moment on. So brace yourself."

Dawn makes a compelling case for reclaiming Sabbath observance among Christians, not for legalistic purposes, but for the irreplaceable benefits a weekly sabbath offers. Far from sending the reader on a guilt trip, it makes a regular sabbath so attractive that the reader can hardly wait to begin ceasing, resting, embracing, and feasting (the four aspects of sabbath observance that comprise the four sections of the book).

"Keeping the Sabbath Wholly" is a "wonder drug" of sorts, an emotional, spiritual, social, and physical prescription for many of us who spend our lives in spasms of activity: frantic work and frenzied leisure that fragment us instead of fulfilling us.

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