Keeping with the Sunday theme of a day of rest, let’s keep this short. Jesus once said:
And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day? [Luke 14:5]
To help me observe the Sabbath, I attend Mass, perhaps read a section of a religious book, and try to avoid shopping (or even to have groceries / packages arrive on Sunday, if I can).
But sometimes errands gotta err. And Jesus points out that the Sabbath was made for us:
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. [Mark 2:27]
And so one way to take your day of rest is to deal with the things which are like your oxen in the well – those things in a metaphorical pit which will keep getting worse unless you make them better.
-the Centaur
