A Day Off

Today is my day off. Once a week, I take a day that will be focused on all the things at home that have not been completed. It is also supposed to be a day to relax a bit from the rigors of work, to calm the mind, to spend some additional moments of meditation, reading, and prayer. Yet I always seem to get back around to working some. I guess it's a part of the vocation to which I have been called.

Ministry never ends. There is always a need. There is always a bit more tweaking that can be done to a sermon...and the list goes on. So it's more of a semi-day off, but I'll take it.

Today's tasks will include taking down the Christmas decorations in the house and packing them away and getting my 2008 files cleaned out and put away so that 2009 can be filed appropriately. They are not bad inside tasks since we're supposed to get up to 8 inches of snow!

But regardless of the day, whether working or not (actually it is whether I'm at the office or not), it is another day to be faithful as a witness, to refocus my heart and mind, to reacquaint myself with my family, to relax.

I hope you take at least one of them a week and a few of them together once in a while. They are good for the soul for even God took a day off from creating!

So enjoy your day...I sure will!

Peace ><>
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