MONDAY, MONDAY!

I try to keep Mondays as a quiet day - a day off from church involvement, just so that I can get refreshed and recharged by focusing on a few other things. I'm not saying I head to the beach as the sun comes up - it's usually more mundane stuff like gym and Weightwatchers in the morning and then either doing minor jobs around the house or like yesterday, taking Gill over to Commack to a store she needed to go to.

God's idea from day one - or day seven to be exact - was that all creation should follow his example and take one day a week to chill a little.

It's easy to get into the routine of running seven days a week, but it's not good. How do I know that? I just believe the One who made us and wrote the manual. Of course cutting back is a tough thing to do - I must admit to checking emails, listening to phone messages and doing some research on the internet during the course of the day yesterday - but it's essential to pull back from everything else one day a week.

I can't go to every party, attend every dinner, be at every event I get invited to, even though I appreciate being included. Nor can anyone who might wander into these pages of selected ramblings. Saying no is sometimes misunderstood, but it's essential to our sanity and to us living life the way God intends.

Simplify!

And have a Sabbath!