A review by dkatreads
The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath by Mark Buchanan

5.0

Excellent writing, immersive storytelling from an author who understands the formative, centering power of Sabbath. Buchanan, in his wide array of tales, past memories and Biblical analysis, grafts us not only into his own journey of discovering Sabbath, but also into the story of the Israelite people themselves. He gently focuses us back on ourselves to see the rotten spoils of workaholism, ceaceless striving, and identity-making in titles and achievements, and then points us back to the nature of the amazing God who gives us the wonderful gift of rest, completion, enjoyment in this life through the day of Sabbath. He provides ample suggestions for practicing the rhthyms of Sabbath in our own lives at the end of every chapter, but is careful to keep us from the irony of "striving" to master a practice of rest, of ending our striving. My only complaint is that I wish he had flushed out some ideas towards the end of the book a little more, given us a little more direction, but I guess that's the magic and sanctity of Sabbath itself: that it's a gift to discover, to comb the depths of ourselves for years (and an eternity!) to come.