This month in our pastoral letters, we’re thinking about the rhythms of rest and work that God has built into His created order.  This week, I want to discuss one of our Lord’s sweetest gifts to His people: the rhythm of six days of work and one day of rest.  The day of rest is known in Hebrew as the Shabbat, meaning “ceasing or stopping,” from which we get our word “Sabbath.”   Because of the Judeo-Christian influence on our world, it can be easy for us to take this pattern of rest and work for granted.  For a moment, rather than looking at this through the lens of 21st century…