Keeping the Sabbath

Yesterday I read a blog called Go Lightly Place.  One of this creative person's resolutions was to keep the Sabbath. What she meant was that on Sundays she was going to do things she enjoyed after attending her place of worship such as knitting, sketching, reading etc. She was going to try not to spend Sunday doing household chores that could wait until Monday or that she could do on Saturday. She said she would put something for dinner in the crock pot to make cooking dinner easier.

As I read this I thought of how I'm always doing chores that really don't have to be done on Sunday instead of doing the things that bring me joy.  I long to carry the spiritual calm I feel after worship services into the rest of my Sunday.  So today, I've done as many of my Sunday chores as possible, one of which is grocery shopping.  I've done the laundry. I plan to cook a roast along with some potatoes in the oven for dinner. I'm looking forward to embroidering a pillow case and catching up on my reading. (It will be nice to read the entire Sunday paper on Sunday for a change!) If the weather is nice, I may go for a walk on the city trail near my home or just sit drinking tea in my favorite tea cup while watching my young Lab puppy make new discoveries in the yard. 

I'm looking forward to Sunday and plan to "keep the Sabbath" each week.