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We've been trying to be more intentional about taking days of rest (Sabbaths) on Saturdays because of the rhythms of work & rest we see biblically. So today we took our first Sabbath day of 2018. Taking a day of rest with a one year-old is challenging which is perhaps the exact reason we should be taking a day of rest. Rest days are easy without kids. But with kids, rest must be intentional, planned, and creative. Today that looked like most of our food intake coming straight from the ground to remind us of our reliance upon the ground God has given us. It looked like letting the Christmas decorations stay up for one more day. It looked like reading 12 chapters of Genesis during my daughter's nap and grasping the gravity of Joseph's story a little more. It looked like sending my husband off for a bike ride and it was a promise to look at our phones less. I took the Enneagram test and I'm a 4. I'm not proud of everything about our day: Our dau...

No name Just "Samaritan woman" Approached by a well by an odd man At an odd time: no one is supposed to be here right now, right now, when her shame forced her to draw water alone But shame was no match for the Living Water that baptized the isolated whore, raised her into prophetess, evangelist, beloved. "our Father Jacob," she said, but did she see? Jacob's wife was found at the well, and Isaac's too. Two matriarchs, fountain-heads of descendents, carriers of promise, approached the well and left betrothed and grafted into a covenant. Those women came and offered water, but you came and received it. Do you see, nameless Samaritan woman? You have left the well just as your mothers did: betrothed, dignified, grafted in, chosen. thirst quenched. A new mother to the many who believed your testimony A new matriarch for a new covenant. A new Bride to God himself.