The Practice of the Week Week 5
A Mini-Sabbath
A few hours this week to fully stop — no grind, no proving, no scroll.
One simple thing. Keep it small, keep it doable, and do it with them first.
Pick one block of time this week — a few hours, up to a whole day. Stop. No homework grind, no doomscroll, no hustle, no proving anything to anyone. Do one thing that’s genuinely restful and one thing that’s genuinely playful — something with zero productivity value. Notice how hard it is to not be useful. That difficulty is the whole lesson.
Each day, take one ‘holy pause’ — after a meal, before bed — and just enjoy that you’re alive and don’t have to earn it.
Choose your block of time — and tell someone, so you keep it.
Unplug from one thing that owns you (a game, the feed, the grind).
Do one restful thing and one purely playful thing.
Afterward, ask: was it hard to stop? Why?
May you learn to rest like the God whose image you bear, and may your worth stop depending on what you produce.