Sabbath : restoring the sacred rhythm of rest / Wayne Muller. [print]

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Part I. Rest -- Rest for the weary : lighting Sabbath candles -- The joy of rest : creating time and space -- Legalism and the dreary Sabbath : a Sabbath meal -- A new beginning : begin again -- It is good : blessing -- Dormancy : the Sabbath box

Part II. Rhythm -- The rhythm of creation : the Sabbath walk -- Inner music : the cadence of breath -- Hurtling toward the eschaton : nature -- Let it be : prayer -- The book of hours : lectio divina

Part III. Time -- A life well lived : play -- Seize the day : alter -- Why time is not money : reciting our precepts -- A deeper wealth : the wealth of companionship

Part IV. Happiness -- The pursuit of happiness : gratefulness -- The gospel of consumption : happiness for free -- Selling unhappiness : morning rituals -- The tyranny of choice : stopping to rest -- Sensuality and delight : take off your shoes

Part V. Wisdom -- Doing good badly : patience -- Be still and know : sleeping on it -- Nobody special : humility -- Being Sabbath : thinning -- Beginner's mind : cleansing

Part Virgin Islands Consecration -- Mindfulness and holiness : confession -- The way of enough : a place at the table -- Ownership : giveaway -- Breaking the trance

Part Virgin IslandsI. A Sabbath day -- Evening -- Morning -- Afternoon -- Leaving Sabbath time.

A meditation on the need for a day of rest, against the background of a growing commercialization of Sunday. The author analyzes the rhythm of labor and rest, by which all living beings are governed.