The empire wants you exhausted. Because exhausted people don't resist, they can only survive.
This week, we're talking about rest as resistance. Not self-care. Not work-life balance. But Sabbath as protest against a system that defines your worth by your productivity.
We explore:
- How Sabbath was woven into creation itself, and became an act of defiance under Pharaoh
- Why Jesus withdrew constantly, even with only three years to accomplish the most urgent mission in history
- What trauma does to your nervous system, and why some of us can't rest even when we desperately need to
- Elijah's breakdown and God's response: rest first, then work
- What white Christians need to grieve before we can move into repair
- Three starting points for practicing Sabbath as resistance
Before we can do the repair work coming in February, March, and April, we have to stop long enough to tend to what's broken in us.
Rest isn't retreat. Rest is how we stay in this for the long haul.
Resources:
- Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance
- Trauma and grief resources
- Journal Gently - an 8-week guided journaling experience for women who are ready to listen to what still hurts without fixing or forcing anything. (Kari Bartkus, Love Does That)
- Flamingo Trauma Recovery - Faith integrated mental health education and therapy access for the underserved. Healing trauma from childhood, transition, and harmful religious doctrine
- Kristen Humiston, MSW, APSW: Courageous Healing Therapy (WI residents) or Kristen Joy Coaching
- Kristen A. Brock (me!) Trauma-Informed Coaching
- The Body Keeps the Score: Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
- My Grandmother's Hands: Resmaa Menakem
- Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World. Serena Jones
- Othered: Finding Belonging with the God who Pursues the Hurt, Harmed & Marginalized: Jenai Auman
- Translating Your Past: Finding Meaning in Family Ancestry, Genetic Clues and Generational Trauma: Michelle Van Loon
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Here’s to a faith that tells the truth, refuses silence in the face of harm, and follows Jesus all the way into healing and justice.
RESOURCES:
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Holy Disruption: Reclaiming a Justice-Rooted Faith course info and interest list
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