Isaiah 58:9-14

If you get rid of unfair practices, quit blaming victims, quit gossiping about other people's sins,
If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out,
Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight.
(...)
You'll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry.
(...)
If you watch your step on the Sabbath and don't use my holy day for personal advantage,
If you treat the Sabbath as a day of joy, God's holy day as a celebration,
If you honour it by refusing 'business as usual', making money, running here and there -
Then you'll be free to enjoy God!
Oh I'll make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob.


in a way, the 'Sabbath' should really be a day of fasting - cutting back on 'things of the world', anything which distracts me from my first Love.
fasting is not just giving up a meal or three
it's so much more
it's about laying down the things that make me 'too busy for God' for a while, for however long He decides, so that i can once again have my focus sharpened by Him