It's Sunday

It's Sunday.  And we're at home.  The last Pathway service starts in 3 minutes, and we're still in our pajamas.  It's just one of those days.

I gotta admit, I'm a little bummed about missing the service this morning.  Since I do the slides, I get to read Ron's sermon notes ahead of time, and this one looks extra good!  We'll catch it on the podcast later this week.  But it's still not the same.

On Friday morning we were thinking, "Finally!  A weekend where neither one of us has to work, and we don't have a lot going on!  We can relax at home as a family!"  Well.....somehow the weekend filled up.  Dustin decided to take the wallpaper off of the only room in the house that we haven't redone yet.  So that meant a couple trips to the store.  We went to a birthday party, we went to a local Christmas event, we went out to eat.  And it feels like we haven't taken a breath all weekend!  This afternoon I'm going shopping with my MIL and SIL, and then I'm working at a special service at Pathway this evening.  These are all good things.  But they're still THINGS. TO. DO.  So this morning was the only potential down time.

I do believe that God wants us to be at church.  I believe that he wants us to be a part of a church community and be consistently involved in that community.  To build others up, and to build us up.  But today, it's family time.  He wants us to have that too.  He wants us to rest.  He wants us to enjoy the people we live with.  And sometimes that means cutting something out of the schedule to just hang out with each other.

Will we do this every Sunday?  Absolutely not.  Church is too valuable.  It's a part of our lives that we cannot do without.  But this is what we're doing today.  Eating breakfast (not in the car on the way to somewhere....actually sitting down and eating breakfast), reading books, and, right now...watching Elmo.  :-)

It's about time for me to jump in the shower and head out the door to the rest of my busy day.  And Dustin will probably spend the afternoon upstairs scraping wallpaper, running downstairs every so often to check the score of whatever football game is on.  The busyness will continue.  The busyness will ALWAYS continue.

We just have to keep finding mornings like these.