A Year Later: The Final Summary

Well, I obviously did not follow through with my promise to keep the blog going throughout the entire project.

Sorry. Life Happens. I assume you'll get over it.


While I can't provide the exact details of the latter half of the project (my memory is good, but not that good), I can provide a year-later look-back, and so that is what I will do.

Here goes:

Through the first parts of Project Sabbath, I feel I was simply going through the motions in an attempt to spark life (or frankly anything) into my relationship with God. It wasn't until Week 7 (or something close to that) that I truly felt God.

It was an interesting Sabbath that day. I don't remember what specifically it was that I did that day to trigger it, but I felt "the call". This was not a subtle nudging (I've experienced a few of those before), but rather an all out mental barrage; a true mind-blowing experience. It was a call to truly give my life over to God, and to completely change who I was. These are, of course,the cliched words used to describe just about every new Christian's conversion experience. And while I don't think they are entirely accurate in describing my experience that Sabbath, there was a "call", a potential turning point in my, to use another cliche, Christian walk.

And how did I answer?

I didn't

Rather than rising to the occasion, answering the call, and potentially ushering in a complete life-overhaul, I got scared. It was too overwhelming for me and I retreated back into the safety of my old ways.

The rest of the Project Sabbath was spent more or less in autopilot. I still kept the rules and followed the guidelines, biding my time until I no longer had to. And by the end I was glad it was over.

In the subsequent months I retreated even farther into my shell. I became more aloof and put more distance between me and God. And now I recognize what I've been doing these last few months.


So maybe its time to start to do something about it. Maybe its time to start to come out of my spiritual shell. Is it time for Project Sabbath 2: the Resurrection? Probably not (especially with that title). But it is time for a deliberate attempt to reconnect with God.

Hopefully this time, I'll have a better answer for "the call".