We live in a culture that values and applauds hard work and lots of it. Work is indeed something modeled for us by God and given to us to do to join Him in caring for His creation. The part we often forget in our culture is the essential needs for regular times of rest since we are made in the image of the God who also rested on the 7th day after six days of creating the world. God both commands and invites you and me into the gift of taking time to recharge from our labor so that we might labor with greater joy going forward!