Jubilee

 Jubilee refers to “seven” as in seven years.  In the ancient world, an ethic was that every seven years was a time to rest.  Let the earth rest from your planting.  Lie fallow.  It comes from the idea of God resting on the Seventh Day which then became the Sabbath.  If the all powerful deity needs a break why is it that so many of us, religious as well as non-religious cannot take a break and some even wish that we had an eighth day to get everything done.  You think you will disappoint others if you take a day?  Where did others get that expectation of you?  Recovery  people race around trying to make up for the mess they created.  I try to start out the day saying to myself, “I cannot complete or undertake this agenda all at once.”  The first person to drop expectations of yourself is yourself.  I try to take control of my day of rest, rather than control of the world or my world of work and tasks.