Its Friday, but Sunday's comin'

There's just something about the weekend, isn't there? For me "weekend" means Sunday. Saturday's o.k. but I think Sunday's the best day of the week for me. And that in the face of many changes that I have seen in what we do with Sunday.

For instance, when I was growing up, and well into my ministry years, Sunday meant going to church at least twice, sometimes more. Missing church, either morning or evening, was not even considered. There were strict rules for Sunday observance, like no ball playing, not even listening to games on the radio, and obviously no work was done outside of in the kitchen. I don't remember for sure but we probably left our "church clothes" on all day, because we were going to church in the evening. As our culture and the church changed and Sunday evening services were not held much, or at all anymore, I confess that it was hard for me to get used to not going there on Sunday evenings. And its still just pricks me a little bit when I miss church on Sunday morning, which is not often, but sometimes we travel then or miss for other reasons.

Sometimes Sunday afternoons and evenings can get pretty long when there's nothing special to do. Occasionally there are Sunday afternoon, or evening, events at our church, sometimes we go somewhere else for a special program of some kind, but most of the time we need to find something to do around home. Of course there's the daily nap time, and we like to walk in the arboretum or somewhere when we can, sometimes we have friends over, or go to visit with friends somewhere. In the summer time I like to watch the Cubbies when they play on Sunday, but I'm not into football or pro basketball too much, and there's usually not much else of interest on the tube Sunday afternoons, or evenings for that matter.

But even with all of that, I like Sundays. I like being with other believers in our Sunday School (a misnomer for sure) even if I get frustrated with the content at times. And I especially enjoy the worship times. We almost always have good music of one kind or another - organ, piano, flute, drums, guitars, trumpet - and of course good singing. Now we don't have all those instruments at one time, but a good mix most of the time. Worship style and the type of music is still an issue to some degree in our church, as I have found it to be a lot of places around the country. I happen to like a variety of music types and can enjoy most of what we have in our church.

Well, enough said on this I guess. Unlike a lot of what I hear about Monday from some people who are involved in the working world, I don't mind Mondays at all, or the other days of the week for that matter. But Sunday's still my favorite. It helps me keep going on my journey. How about you?

Pilgrim on the way