what are your thoughts on, Keeping Sabbath?

     There is a concept in many religious/spiritual circles of "sacred time" or Sabbath. For as long as humans have  practiced spirituality or observed religion "sacred time" has played a central and integral part to these activities. Sacred time enables practitioners to pause their daily or weekly routine and participate in rituals meaningful to the individual or group.
     When we are able to pause our daily activity what happens? In the pause, we are interrupting a flow of thought  or activity or intention. In the pause, the physical movement of our body becomes purposeful and less automatic. In the pause of sacred time or Sabbath, it is no longer about what we are DO-ing but how we are BE-ing. Sabbath or sacred time encourages us to breathe, to emote, to hear, to see, to tactily engage the physical space we are occupying right now. BE-ing in sacred time, slows down the frenzy of daily tasks and obligations and objectives we convinces ourselves and each other are necessary for life.
    Sacred time and Sabbath keeping encourages me to stay in the flow of life with its daily struggles and unexpected challenges for myself and my loved ones. Sabbath keeping helps me to maintain an emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical equilibrium so that I have the opportunity to be my authentic self even in the hardest or most mundane or most trying times of life.