My family finally made it home from the far reaches of Montana last week and life as normal resumed. This Saturday we had a good day - fun and well-run primary activity in the morning, worked on the yard during the day together, I taught my daughter how to use the lawnmower, we went out to dinner for some Tex-Mex, and had a restful evening at home.
Sunday (yesterday) was a horrible day. Church was decent enough, but then, constrained by something (religion? heritage? tradition?) from doing the things we otherwise would have done (swimming, more work on the yard, etc.) it became quite a bad day. Nobody had anything to do and chaos and fighting was the result.
This is not an uncommon weekend pattern. It has made me reevaluate the concept of "keeping the Sabbath day holy."
I am interested to hear of approaches that work for others. People who are going to say things like "read your scriptures" and "write letters to missionaries" and "sing primary songs" need not waste the pixel space, as that's not going to work. I'm currently wondering why working in the yard, say, as a family, or taking a family trip to the lake, or going swimming down at the community pool, or any number of similar things are inappropriate sabbath day activities. I've been taught my entire life (mostly culturally) that that is the case, but I'm not sure I agree anymore.
Sunday (yesterday) was a horrible day. Church was decent enough, but then, constrained by something (religion? heritage? tradition?) from doing the things we otherwise would have done (swimming, more work on the yard, etc.) it became quite a bad day. Nobody had anything to do and chaos and fighting was the result.
This is not an uncommon weekend pattern. It has made me reevaluate the concept of "keeping the Sabbath day holy."
I am interested to hear of approaches that work for others. People who are going to say things like "read your scriptures" and "write letters to missionaries" and "sing primary songs" need not waste the pixel space, as that's not going to work. I'm currently wondering why working in the yard, say, as a family, or taking a family trip to the lake, or going swimming down at the community pool, or any number of similar things are inappropriate sabbath day activities. I've been taught my entire life (mostly culturally) that that is the case, but I'm not sure I agree anymore.
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