What nation is lucky enough to have Shabbos?
Where our cell phones are not constantly annoying us,
where telemarketers cant reach us through land-line phones,
where we are not constantly
running/
working/
gardening/
shopping/
doing the ever-growing pile of laundry/
cooking/
cleaning /,
surgically attached to our blackberry or internet,
where we are ‘forced’ (and I use that positively) to spend quality time with our families for 2 (out of 3 meals),
where we, and others around us, are dressed nicely, cleanly, in pretty clothes,
where we can shep nachas from ours/ our neighbors/ our friends’ children,
Many jobs offer 401K or retirement benefits where they put aside some of your money to be used when you retire. But by then, you are already over the hill.
Boruch HaShem, the mitzvah of Shabbos gives us 1 day of retirement each week, while we are young enough to appreciate it, and do something about it, and sit back and enjoy the brochos we have, instead of waiting till we’re 65 and realizing that the ‘cats in the cradle’ song describes us, c’v’.