I had a plan for my next blog, but then I went to work. How was my day? I'm very tempted right now to use this blog as a venting devise against children. But I won't. Well, maybe. No. That would be wrong. Yeah, that kind of day. When I got home, I was a like a woman dipped in gasoline, and every word from my husband's lips was a lit match. Thus, when he laid down to nap, I did too...except on the couch. I HAD to get away, if only for 15 minutes.
The next three to four weeks ahead look insane. I have two weddings to help out with, softball games to play, music to prepare, blogs to write, VBS, July 4th with family, and that's only the big things. Little events creep in between the cracks like a line of marching ants: annoying and hard to kill. If I have hair in a month from now, it's probably a wig =).
By now, I'm sure you're saying/thinking, "Geez, girl, is this whole blog about you complaining?! I thought you said no dairy entries."
Very true. Believe it or not, I have a point. Life can get busy. It can be so tempting to go, go, go, go, go. But to go through life working and not stopping to rest is like writing this blog with no periods or comas eventually it becomes just a jumble of words that confuse instead of help do you see what I mean? No, to write well, I must take the TIME to work in the periods, comas, colons and such. To live life well, we must rest.
When I did a quick search for the Sabbath in the Bible, I found 138 hits. In Exodus through Deuteronomy, there are 33. Exodus 20 gives the ten commandments. You'll find that while all the other commandments take only one verse, keeping the Sabbath day holy takes three. The commandment is mentioned before all the ones society sees as huge: murder, adultery, stealing... If that doesn't say it's important to God, I don't know what else can.
No, I'm not saying you are a heathen if you work on Sunday. But, for your sanity, please say you have at least one day off. Romans 14:5 says, "In the same way, some think one day is more holy than another day, while others think every day is alike. You should each be fully convinced that whichever day you choose is acceptable." Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Whatever. The point is that we must make time for rest. God gives us this commandment to help, not hinder us. Resting doesn't necessarily mean doing nothing. Jesus healed and his disciples pulled some grain. Guess what else Jesus did? He slept. When Moses told the people in Exodus 35:3 to not even build a fire, he meant only to prevent the people from heating their tools or melting metal as black smiths and plumbers did. That's work. He wasn't telling the people to starve and freeze.
You may or may not agree, but resting is a holy action and it honors God. If not, he wouldn't have rested himself or made a rule for us to do so. Let the Spirit lead you in this. See if God doesn't lead you to find a time for rest this week.
I'm remembering a comment by Jess about the pendulum swinging...I like your take on that idea. I think that we, as Chrisitian women, tend to overwhelm ourselves with activities for so many reasons, and few of them are good reasons. (I know, I'm preaching to myself, too, here.)
ReplyDeleteKudos to you for keeping up with this, even in the middle of the night. :)