The Sabbath's No to the ordinary routines of life offers us a special opportunity to taste leisure, contemplation, worship and companionship. Given the frenzied pace of our lives, the open space of the Sabbath constantly tempts us to borrow from it for practical, necessary duties. And if we are not fiercely selective, the open space of Sabbath will disappear. No, the quietness of the park will exist only in memory or imagination. The landscape of our lives will be completely full and dreadfully impoverished.
Parks help make cities humane.
They help people to be fully human. Sabbath is a park in time. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son nor the alien within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day.