Good for you. Really. Sabbatical will be good for you. Conceptually, it is designed--from it's earliest concept--Sabbath--to allow you to rest and rejuvenate. It is not about quitting. It is a strengthening time to prepare you for the future. Embrace the rest. Don't fill it up. Allow it to fill you up.
Us? We have hosted exchange students, woodworking students (both teens and adults), carpenter-friends who have come to help with projects for weeks at a time, friends and family members who find themselves in a tough spot temporarily, and travelers we met online or who were recommended by friends. All of it is good, but it definitely changes the dynamic of the home.
We are in a season now, as intentional nomads living in a truck camper, where we can't easily host overnight guests, but we love to have people over for a meal or a beverage. A couple weeks ago we stopped in SLC to see one of our kids and we ended up having a potluck picnic for nine people in our camper! It was so fun!
I love this. You are bringing hospitality on your travels, which is beautiful. I think that's part of what you intended to do, and it's cool to see it happening.
I love the idea of sabbatical and I don’t think we often practice the principle in our hard driving, entrepreneurial culture. I like how senior pastors practice this and are supported by their congregations. But I’d love to see the ideas spread to other kinds of ministers, includingwriters. Thanks for thinking this through and writing about it. It’s making me think, too!
Good for you. Really. Sabbatical will be good for you. Conceptually, it is designed--from it's earliest concept--Sabbath--to allow you to rest and rejuvenate. It is not about quitting. It is a strengthening time to prepare you for the future. Embrace the rest. Don't fill it up. Allow it to fill you up.
Us? We have hosted exchange students, woodworking students (both teens and adults), carpenter-friends who have come to help with projects for weeks at a time, friends and family members who find themselves in a tough spot temporarily, and travelers we met online or who were recommended by friends. All of it is good, but it definitely changes the dynamic of the home.
We are in a season now, as intentional nomads living in a truck camper, where we can't easily host overnight guests, but we love to have people over for a meal or a beverage. A couple weeks ago we stopped in SLC to see one of our kids and we ended up having a potluck picnic for nine people in our camper! It was so fun!
I love this. You are bringing hospitality on your travels, which is beautiful. I think that's part of what you intended to do, and it's cool to see it happening.
It is part of what we intended, and it is so fun to see it happening. Like the couple with the wooden shoes I just wrote about this week in my post. 💜
Really hard efforts require rest. Well done.
Thanks, Fred!
I love the idea of sabbatical and I don’t think we often practice the principle in our hard driving, entrepreneurial culture. I like how senior pastors practice this and are supported by their congregations. But I’d love to see the ideas spread to other kinds of ministers, includingwriters. Thanks for thinking this through and writing about it. It’s making me think, too!