My Sunday Off

It is Sunday. I am still in bed. It is weird.
I know that I have not been pastoring too log but it does not take very long to hammer into your psyche that if you are still in bed at 7:oo AM something is very wrong. Yet here I am laying in bed at a Holiday Inn in Cherry Hill, NJ waiting for the day to unfold. I think that I am going to try to view this Sunday as a Sabbath. Given that I am here to help with my brother and his wife's move from Philly to Altus, OK I think that possibility of not working will be slim but still this will truly be a sabbath.

I think that a lot of people see the idea of Sabbath as something of a coma to slip into where you cannot do anything for 24 hrs. If this is the case then it is no wonder why sabbath is never really enjoyed or undertaken. For my own life I think of Sabbath as a God-given break from the routine and the rat race. The days that have been most sabbath-filled in recent memory haven't been where I sat around doing nothing but rather have been when I have been active doing the things that my work doesn't provide me the space or time to do. I mow the lawn - certainly work yet it is a break from my labor. Today is the perfect example. It is going to be hot and sweaty all day long. I am going to grow tired and perhaps sore but I will toil in another vineyard (to put it bibically) and at the end of the day I will have taken what I think is a true sabbath - a day from the work of my call yet not a day in a coma of inactivity.

I would like to challenge you to enjoy your Sabbath. Find something you want to do, work at, or be a part of and claim the space in your day to get your hands dirty doing something wholly-other than what the normal 9-5 has in store for you the other days of the week.

Tonight I will be headed to the Circus with my family. I am thinking that the clowns don't put their make-up and floppy shoes on when they don't have to.

Peace, Brett