Sabbath is not just for rest; its for dreaming

An invitation to imagine it with God

The Sabbath is not for rest. It’s for dreaming.

One of the biggest mistakes we make is thinking Sabbath is about doing nothing.

That it’s boring. That it’s passive. That it’s for crashing on the couch and just waiting for the day to pass.

But what if it’s actually the opposite?

The Sabbath has been with us since the beginning—woven into the very rhythm of creation. Before Moses. Before the Ten Commandments. There were two people, God, and a garden.

And on the first full day of their lives, Adam and Eve didn’t get to work.

They didn’t plow fields or name animals or prune vines.

They rested.

But not because they were tired.

They hadn’t earned anything yet. They hadn’t worked a single day.

So why did they rest?

I imagine it like this.

Six days a week, they’d partner with God to tend to Eden—cultivating beauty, stewarding what He made, getting their hands in the soil.

But on the seventh day? They’d sit with Him under a tree and dream.

Dream of what the week ahead could become.

Of what kind of world they could build.

Of how they’d name the next thing, and what new seeds they might plant.

They weren’t doing nothing.

They were doing everything that mattered.

This is what Sabbath really is.

It’s not about inactivity.

It’s about imagination.

Sabbath is the sacred space where your soul gets to breathe.

Where striving stops and dreaming begins.

So when you take a Sabbath—don’t just stop working.

Start imagining.

You were made for goodness,
Phil