You know how when you're a kid and as soon as your friends call, you're out the door to be with them? Well, I grew up in a house where keeping the sabbath day holy was strictly enforced. I couldn't play with friends or go to birthday parties on Sundays. As a kid, I sometimes really didn't like it, but in hindsight I see that it was a day that gave me the opportunity to bond with my family that I probably wouldn't have had if I had been allowed to run off to a friend's house every Sunday. Instead I spent the time with my mom, my dad, my 2 brothers and my 2 sisters. Even if we didn't always get along, there were good memories made. I wouldn't trade that quality time for anything now, which is why I am doing my best to instill this belief in my own family. When Aaron first started going to church he had a hard time with the "keep the Sabbath day holy" belief. Sundays were an extra day to do things, a day he could get things done that he couldn't do during the week. He wasn't thrilled about cutting the weekend short when it came to running errands or "playing". It's not that I didn't let him, it's just that sort of guilty feeling when you know you should be doing something one way, but you just can't change the way you want to do it yet. Well anyway, as time went one it got easier and easier for him to rest on Sundays. In fact he now cherishes his Sundays. He loves knowing there is one day where he is not expected to work or go out. In our family Sundays are jammie days! As soon as we return home from church the kids run into their rooms to change into their jammies. They don't even call Sunday, "Sunday", they call it Jammieday. We have lunch as a family, we usually then all sprawl out on the couch to watch a movie together. There are days that are too beautiful to pass up so we'll go on family walks or drives, no matter what we do we all seem a little more relaxed on Sundays which makes it so much easier to see how one day of rest is a reward, not a punishment.
