Sabbath and Rest: Chrysostom on Rest from Anxiety

John Chrysostom connected Sabbath rest specifically to release from anxiety. He preached: "Do not say to me, 'I cannot rest because I have so much to do.' This is precisely why you must rest -- because your soul has become so enslaved to doing that it has forgotten how to be." Chrysostom diagnosed the spiritual disease of chronic busyness centuries before the modern epidemic.…