Our lives are so busy that we have no time to rest. We complain, “Give me a break!”

Even God took a break after creating the world. In the 3rd Commandment God commands that we take a break.

Jesus seems to do the same when he invites his disciples to come to a “deserted place” to rest. But Jesus may also have been inviting them to come a different kind of “deserted place,” a place that was abandoned and undesirable.

A “deserted place” can also be a place where life has gone sour and sin has taken its toll. Our lives are filled with them. We just want to shriek, “Give me a break!”

Jesus invites us to join him at a “deserted place” where no one wants to go and there surprisingly gives us a break: the cross! At this forbidding place Jesus gives us a break from the pressures of life. Jesus transforms “deserted places” into “blessed places.”

Therefore, keeping the Sabbath, taking a break, getting some rest and listening to Jesus words of peace are a blessing and not a burden.