On the seventh day God rested all from that creating and declared that day holy. God had worked for six long and hard days… but people? We had only just been created the day before. And yet, God commands humankind to rest, to honor the sabbath day and keep it holy. We don't have to earn rest, because we were made for it. When we keep the sabbath day holy, when we step off the hamster wheel of productivity and set aside time to rest in God’s goodness we are doing exactly what we were made to do. We are embracing the part of us that is made in God’s image. We are accepting the inheritance of the kingdom of God. As activist Tricia Hersey claims in her book of the same title, Rest is Resistance. Rest, true sabbath rest, stakes a bold claim that we are worthy simply because we are created in God’s image. That we belong to God before we ever belong to  ...