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Sabbath / Mar 19, 03:51 PM
I’m currently sitting at my fiance’s 21 inch (?) mac computer in Orange City Iowa… the town of my family, college, and fiance. Besides the 12 hours between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. yesterday (Monday) I have had a good break. Contained in those 12 hours was unrelenting stomach pain, throwing up (only once – I felt like it and thought it would clear up the pain which it didn’t really), and almost 12 hours of sleep. I was going to meet up with people at our college’s new cafe last night but rescheduled to tonight because of how badly I was feeling.
After Mission Year I’ll definitely never look at Mondays in the same way again. I know that’s even more true after talking with Mike Noble, who did Mission Year in Philly last year, and is now a Junior back here at Northwestern College. We talked Sunday after lunch (lunch was Indian food that Abhi and I cooked for Abhi’s worship team and Mike’s on Abhi’s team [which is cool, I think]) which was really nice… even just hearing what his team was like and different things about their year… Anyway, that was Sunday and Mike was saying it was his sabbath so instead of doing homework he was off to play video games. :)
This morning I attended chapel with Abhi, which was really nice. Our school’s chaplain spoke on Leviticus, which is the chapel theme for this semester! He likes to pick somewhat obscure things – or things that students request. He does a good job with whatever it is though. So he started by talking about Leviticus 15 and how it’s got all these ritual purity things that seem just so unnecessary and for the life of him he can’t figure out why that stuff has to be in the Bible… even all the commentaries he’s read haven’t shed any good light on Leviticus 15. I thought “oh no, he’s going to go over these off-the-wall purity codes that I don’t want to know about…” but fortunately he went to Leviticus 18 and instead talked about the Sabbath.
Leviticus 23: 1-8 (TNIV)
1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. 3 “ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the LORD. 4 “ ‘These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times: 5 The LORD’s Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. 6 On the fifteenth day of that month the LORD’s Festival of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. 7 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 8 For seven days present a food offering to the LORD. And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’ “1. Work hard
2. Rest
3. Remember
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