A friend sent me a text message this afternoon asking what I was up to. I replied "oh, cleaning, catching up on laundry, helping the kids clean their rooms and get us all ready for Monday." Got a message back saying did I know that Sunday was supposed to be a day of rest, that even God rested on the sabbath and I'm kinda offending him by not honoring it.
A: If I'm supposed to be honoring the sabbath by resting today, why did you text me to see what I was up to? Odds were, I was "cleaning, catching up on laundry..." etc. So next time I get a message on a Sunday asking me what I'm up to, I'll just say "resting." Unless it's from a Seventh Day Adventist, then I can say "cleaning..." Unless it's from a Seventh Day Adventist on a Saturday.
B: Yeah, okay, God had like six whole days all to himself with nobody else around to work on this one project. So he finished his project and he stepped back and looked around and said "It's all good," put Adam in charge of things and took the day off. Which day may or may not have been Sunday...in any case, God didn't have five children running around screwing up everything he tried to make as soon as he made it, adding peices and switching things around every time he turned his back. On the sixth day (which for these purposes we'll call Saturday,) God didn't have to stop in the middle of what he was doing to fix 4 meals, potty with a 2 year old like 17 times, play cards with 9 & 7 year olds, read to a 4 year old and watch an 11 year old mow the lawn. God also didn't have day care kids coming on Monday morning. Amen!
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- I like to think to myself as a "professional mom" -- I've been home raising our six children, home schooling the younger five of them, and working my own home day care business for over a decade now. It's really a wonderful thing that I'm able to be available for my children 24/7...also quite draining! Still, I'm very blessed with six perfect, healthy children who are just ornery enough to be interesting, and I wouldn't change a one. I also have a strong, resourseful husband who can fix anything in the house if it breaks and who never lets my van run out of gas. :o)
3 comments:
It could not have been me who texted you.... I was folding laundry.
oh, you are too much, Stephanie! If I were you, I'd want a day of rest just as a matter of course. But maybe you rest (and play) on Saturday?
oh, p.s., my blog name is Arabella. But it is really me, Jill. Phew, my word verification is saten, not what I thought it was when I first looked.
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