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Sabbath (Originally Published 7/2/2021)

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For many years I have subscribed to the biblical notion to honor Sunday as the Sabbath. One of the Sabbath‘s definitions is “abstinence from work.” In the early days of my real estate career, I found myself working seven days a week. As a young mother and wife, I never felt like I was able to fully see to the needs of everyone else, not to mention find the time to meet my own needs.


When I made the commitment to dedicate my Sundays to not work early on in my career, I noticed life in the real estate world became easier. Sellers, buyers and other brokers alike began to respect my decision that I did not work on Sundays. I used to tell everyone that I dedicated my Sundays to God. Who could fault me for that? Even God rested after the six days it took to create the heavens and the Earth. Perhaps my sense of the no-work Sunday or the Sabbath rested in some teachings I received as a youth in a religious training class where the Sabbath was to be kept holy. The concept of no-work Sundays has its basis in one of the Ten Commandments, after all.


It wasn’t until very recently that I came to fully understand the much deeper meaning behind keeping one day a week free of human needs and desires.


One recent Friday, just before the close of business, I received a phone call that indicated a very large transaction I’d been working on for over three years might not close. As a commercial real estate broker, one tends to do fewer deals, but the deals you do get to the closing table have bigger commissions. The loss of this transaction would be a huge economic deficit to me.


Mental chaos began to set in. Naturally, there was nothing I could do about the problem (if anything at all) until Monday. However, I couldn’t seem to quiet my mind about it on Saturday. I began to devise a plan of action I could take to possibly save the deal and made a list of research and phone calls. As I lay in bed Saturday night, I finalized a plan of attack that would require I spend all of Sunday preparing for a Monday morning resolution. I was sliding down the rabbit hole of good intentions.


Enter Sunday morning. Soul was gracious enough to remind me of my no-work-Sunday commitment. Thirty years of a well-supported intention of no work on Sundays finally paid off! Early Sunday morning I consciously released my need to resolve any work problems. I decided to clean up the garden, paint a wall that needed it, play cards with my husband, went for a ten-mile bike ride and cooked a nice dinner. Forgetting my real estate chaos took the repeating of the affirmation “God’s got this” no less than forty times throughout the morning.


It was in the process of working in my orchid garden when I thankfully felt a mental and emotional release take over regarding the outcome of the non-closed transaction, wherein everything became clear: The transaction was either going to close or not — in God’s hands in other words. Who did I think I was to get in the way of the outcome and lose my Sabbath commitment? 


We are spirit beings having a human experience. As such, our world consists of journeys that travel both the material and spiritual roads. Worry, fear, the desire to control, etc., are anything but the spiritual path. I was clearly reminded that all work and no play is not the plan; that the spirit part of me must be able to honor the Sabbath, or my Sunday becomes only about my material self. My orchids brought me so much joy. The plants where I cleaned out the dead leaves and branches sent messages of gratitude. Watered and cleaned up, all my plants seemed to encase me in a feeling of love, peace and beauty.


My husband and I laughed during the card games we played. My body thrived on the bike ride, and dinner was nutritious and delightful. I would say my day was filled with delicacies of the Soul. I’m sure that the Friday afternoon call of chaos was sent by Soul as a reminder of the truth that no external condition or circumstance can hold one in bondage when a mental and emotional contact with Creator Source (God) is made.


So glad I affirmed, “God’s got this!” those three little words saved me from breaking my Sunday commitment to myself and reminded me to stay balanced in the human spiritual vs. material enigma.

 

Affirmation: I balance the material plane with the spiritual plane to experience a healthy, happy and chaos-free life.

“I'm Catherine Wilcox, working to help others see that God is in all things, all the time, through conscious change and self-healing.”

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