I have been reading a book called "The Rest of God". It was given to me by Alicia and Scott Crawley. It was an amazing insight into rest and Sabbath. I am reading it again because it has impacted me so much, and I have some extra copies that I bought if anyone would like to read it as well. The author of this book is Mark Buchanan. Mark Buchanan lives on Vancouver Island, Canada, with his wife, Cheryl, and their three children, Adam, Sarah, and Nicola. He is a pastor and the author of four other books, The Rest of God, Your God is Too Safe, Things Unseen, and The Holy Wild. Some days he is restful or playful, without shame. The quote below is from "The Rest of God".
"In Guelph, Ontario there is a riverside park landmarked with large and intricate sculptures: a dinosaur, a man riding a bicycle, a child and his mother. But these are no ordinary sculptures. Each is made from the debris collected from the riverbed. Every year, the city drains the river by a system of channel locks, then invites people to scour the river’s muddy floor and clean up the garbage scattered along it. A welter of refuse is dredged up: shopping carts tires and rims, car hoods, baby stollers, bikes and trikes, engine blocks, rakes and shovels, urinals, copper plumbing, wine bottles, shoes, thousands of pop cans. Mountains and mountains of rust-scabbed rubbish, slick with algae, are hauled out. Rather than truck all of this garbage off to a landfill, the city calls it sculptors together(although most of the pop cans are turned in for refund and the money donated to park conservation). Each artist is given a mound of junk and commissioned to make from it beauty. The created works are then showcased along the very river from which the raw materials have come.
God does that. He works all things together for those who love Him and are called to His purposes. He takes junk and sculpts art."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBs7UYSLrgk
http://markbuchanan.net/
