Marta Sniezko
Everyone needs a break from time to time. There are times we need a pause to refocus, a stop to take a breath, a step back to regain perspective. That’s just how our human nature is. Even the Lord Himself needed a “vacation” after He was done with Creation in the Book of Genesis 2:2, “On the seventh day God completed the work He had been doing; He rested on the seventh day from all the work He had undertaken.”
And so we have “vacations”. It brings a lot of different things to our minds. It may be time off work, school being out of session, a trip to a new place, the beach, a family barbeque, and so on. But if you really look at why we take these “vacations”, it’s a very interesting aspect. It’s because we need a break from the usual, to take a breath, look at the past, look into the future, put things in perspective, refocus, and start up again.
That’s what the Good Lord taught us in His Seventh Day of rest, which we celebrate every Sunday. Every week, we are called to refocus spiritually on what matters most, so that we can go through the usual week with our eyes refocused and our strength renewed. And so not only spiritually, but also in our everyday earthly lives, we need those “vacations” to pause, renew, refocus, and move on with a better purpose.
May these summer months truly inspire us to reevaluate ourselves and our lives, and to start up once again as better people that we were before!
