he wanted them to lighten up and put the loving response over the rigid rule.
"Love doesn't keep count of someone else's faults - it prefers to see the best in them."
So he said, "The Sabbath was set apart for all of us to enjoy... not the other way around."

Sacred time.
Jesus understood this idea, the idea of creating your own Sabbath, your own sacred time:
put no pressure on this time - no chores, no rules, no obligations, except one -
  use the time in ways that make and keep you and those you love whole.
Jesus brought grace and love to the idea of the Sabbath, but the challenge remains:
  how in the world do we claim and keep that kind of time?

Writing teacher Natalie Goldberg hears that kind of question a lot from her writing students,
  because many of them work full-time, are raising children,
and are deeply involved in community and extended family responsibilities.
"We want to write," they tell her, "but there's no time."
She tells them: you know those day planner books that people use to run their lives?
Well, use them - use them to structure in a time to write,
even if it's just 30 minutes from 10 to 10:30 on Tuesday morning once a week!

When there's no other choice, amazing things can happen in a very short time.
For example, in South Africa there is a wildflower that grows in a region
  known for its lack of rainfall - the flowers bloom suddenly, and for a very short time,
millions of flowers of every color and hue, stretching as far as the eye can see.
It's as if the flowers know they don't have much time.

In the redrock deserts of the American southwest,
  thunderstorms have created potholes in the slickrock,
and in the dry clay of these potholes, tiny eggs are buried: the eggs of the faery shrimp.
When it rains, the potholes fill with water, and the eggs seem to know whether this rain
has provided enough water for them to complete their lifecycle before the water evaporates...
  and if this rain seems to be the right one, the faery shrimp hatch
   and they are very busy for several days - all the time they need.
So when it's a matter of life and death, and when there's no other choice,
amazing things do happen in a very short time.

Now, just for the fun of it,
  let me go from the sublime to the ridiculous to make one last but crucial point -
and then see if we can make our way back to the sublime...
I don't know if Glamour magazine is still being published,
  but I believe most women will remember a regular Glamour feature - 
it was called "Glamour Do's and Glamour Don't's."
Glamour Do's and Don'ts would show you two pictures side-by-side -
for example, a picture of a woman wearing a business suit with sweat socks and tennis shoes:
  that would be a definite "Glamour Don't"... and then, right next to it,
   a picture of a woman in a business suit with nylons and high heels -
    a clear "Glamour Do."