Lazy Sunday
When I was a little girl, there was a law against anything being open for business on a Sunday. Those laws were called Blue Laws. It was a day specifically for rest and worship. Those laws begin to change as I got older and a trip to the shopping mall on a Sunday was what we called a day of "rest". For very few these days is Sunday a time set aside for rest, let alone a day to worship.
We are far too busy scrambling to get done what our jam packed weekdays didn't allow us time for. Our jam packed weekdays. Our jam-packed lives.
Sundays for many a reason should be sacred. Sacred to the mind, the body and the soul. Modern life allows us very little of that. We very consciously have to carve that time out for ourselves. Our families. Often with a big red sharpie pen, we must mark off a day on the crowded calendar.......to rest. Schedule time for rest.
I love a Sunday with no place to be. A day when changing into clothing is optional. A day to leave off the make-up, wear unkempt hair and shuffle happily around the house in slippers. The biggest decision being what wonderful meal you will either cook or have delivered. A time for gathering.
The Lazy Sunday. A day for gathering. Gathering yourself. Rallying family together once more to "catch up". A day to cultivate. Cultivate a beloved hobby. Cultivate friendships, relationships that may have been in the background too long. In turn, you are cultivating you. A day to enrich. Enrich yourself or your family with the power of fortifying conversation, a good meal and time treasured and spent together. Even when the conversation turns to a spirited debate......you are there....together. Blessed to be.
The Lazy Sunday. Also a time to retreat. Perhaps from family or too needy relationships. Life isn't a bed of roses for far too many people. All of the things stated above apply to all of us.
Gathering, cultivating, and enriching are essential. For us and how we relate to the world outside.
The lazy Sunday fortifies us and liberates us.
Restores us.
As it should be.
CJ Ellis/ Author
The Burning Heart Diary
*photo credit: Justin Waldron
The Lazy Sunday. A day for gathering. Gathering yourself. Rallying family together once more to "catch up". A day to cultivate. Cultivate a beloved hobby. Cultivate friendships, relationships that may have been in the background too long. In turn, you are cultivating you. A day to enrich. Enrich yourself or your family with the power of fortifying conversation, a good meal and time treasured and spent together. Even when the conversation turns to a spirited debate......you are there....together. Blessed to be.
The Lazy Sunday. Also a time to retreat. Perhaps from family or too needy relationships. Life isn't a bed of roses for far too many people. All of the things stated above apply to all of us.
Gathering, cultivating, and enriching are essential. For us and how we relate to the world outside.
The lazy Sunday fortifies us and liberates us.
Restores us.
As it should be.
CJ Ellis/ Author
The Burning Heart Diary
*photo credit: Justin Waldron
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