Wendell Berry on Sabbath

Here are some excerpts from poet Wendell Berry on the Sabbath.  He captures some of the essential nature of rest and how it relates to work.

I leave work’s daily rule
And come here to this restful place
Where music stirs the pool
And from high stations of the air
Fall notes of wordless grace,
Strewn remnants of the primal Sabbath’s hymn.

~ Sabbaths - 1979, IV

(click to read the entire poem)

He also has another poem on the Sabbaths you can read: Sabbaths - 1985, I.