Well hello and welcome to the John Mark Comer

teachings podcast I'm Strawn Coleman your host and part of the teaching team

here at practicing the way and it is great to have you

with us. Today we continue our series in partnership with Bridgetown Church on nine

practices for a rule of life with the return of Tyler Stadon teaching on Sabbath.

Sabbath Tyler tells us is about worship, not reward.

It's the rest we spring from, not the day off we fall exhausted into. So as you listen you may like to

reflect on the question am I collapsing into Sabbath or living vitally from it?

Here's Tyler.

Arthur Brooks of the Harvard School of Business tells of an interview that he did with a woman on career and satisfaction.

This was an interview that he did in conjunction

with a whole bunch of research

he was doing on the topic.

And this woman in particular

was a tremendously successful Wall Street traitor.

However, she'd begun to feel that she might be past her prime and found herself slipping a little bit and feared that her younger colleagues were beginning to nip at her heels and he asked her a whole lot of questions about her life and to her credit

She is brutally honest. She's not particularly happy, hasn't been in years. She

describes her marriage as less than what she thought it would be. She

drinks a little bit too much. Her relationship with her college-age children is

just all right.

She works long hours and is exhausted much of the time.

She has lived to work.

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