"There are some things you can count on. The world will not fall apart. At the bottom of life are a confidence and buoyancy about the world. The world will not collapse, and we need not be frantic about the prospect that it will. This, I believe, is a dimension of reality lost in our time, impressed as we are with our capacity to make and unmake the world . . . we cannot finally unmake the world because we have not made the world.
. . .God rested! Think of the boldness of that statement. God rested. The One charged supremely with ordering the world was not in a tizzy about making it go. And the commandment is very clear: We rest because God did (Exodus 20:8-11). And God rested because the reliability of the world has been ordained by God and is not in doubt . . . The world is whole and faithful enough that we need not be consumed in efforts to secure our own existence. It has been secured . . . The world is safe, and that calls for wonder, amazement, and gratitude.
People who lack that sense of astonishment are likely to take themselves too seriously, and for them the world may finally become too anxious."
- Walter Brueggemann