Blue Dot Living:
Dear Reader,
If you’re like Dot, you surely need a rest. So let me share with you some wonderful news. The best thing we can do the planet just might be … nothing. Nothing? Nothing! Jonathan Schorsch is urging all of us to join him in the Green Sabbath Project, a mass movement to observe a weekly day of rest, a modern version of what the ancients practiced: No work, no driving or flying, no scrolling our phones or anything technology, no shopping, no building. Instead, walk, sing, play. Eat with friends (food prepared ahead of time). Gather in community. Rest.
This isn’t necessarily about God or religion, insists Schorsch, “it is merely common-sense self-care for oneself and our planetary home.” And it just might help ease the strain on our planet, something we’re already seeing around the world. On Sundays, Mexico City allows tens of thousands of bicyclists, skateboarders, rollerbladers, parents, kids, and other pedestrians to take over more than a 30-mile area around the city’s historic district. Bogotá, Colombia, has similarly introduced car-free Sundays that the population savors, while England’s Playing Out program gives the streets back to parents and children for play. The impact is sometimes immediate, the website tells us. “When Israeli cities shut down for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), nitrogen oxide pollution in the air decreases for the day by 70–99%.”
It is not just humans who need rest. Our Earth cries out for it, too. As Schorsch puts it, “A green Sabbath restores Shabbat to its original intention of commemorating the creation of the world.”
Leisurely,
Dot
Prophetic Link:
“The Sabbath question is to be the issue in the great final conflict in which all the world will act a part. Men have honored Satan’s principles above the principles that rule in the heavens. They have accepted the spurious sabbath, which Satan has exalted as the sign of his authority. But God has set His seal upon His royal requirement. Each sabbath institution bears the name of its author, an ineffaceable mark that shows the authority of each. It is our work to lead the people to understand this. We are to show them that it is of vital consequence whether they bear the mark of God’s kingdom or the mark of the kingdom of rebellion, for they acknowledge themselves subjects of the kingdom whose mark they bear. God has called us to uplift the standard of His downtrodden Sabbath.” Testimonies to the Church, Vol 6, page 352
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