Vacations & Sabbaticals: Getting Out of the Sprint-and-Crash Cycle

Too often, we think about an annual vacation or (if we have the good fortune) periodic sabbatical as an extended break where we "crash" after a frenetic sprint. We live restlessly and then expect the break to fix it. As a result, we get far less restoration from our times of "rest" than we could. Yes, it is good to have extended breaks, but these need to be rooted in daily, weekly, monthly, and annual practices of rest if we are going to maximize the restoration that our Father and workplaces want these breaks to provide. As we will see, greater intentionality before these breaks also allows for greater intentionality with a vacation or sabbatical.