The Not-So-Restful Day of Rest

   

I don't know if you go to church anywhere, but  if you do you know it can be draining.  Especially if you're at a church plant which meets in a school and requires major setup, and you're on the chore team.  It's not easy to wake up at 6:30 on a Sunday morning (especially if your like me and went to a football game the night before) and get to church by eight, set everything up, breath for a minute and then rush into music practice, breath and then rush into service,afterwards you enjoy a cup of coffee

(or spill a cup of coffee everywhere if you're like me) while looking for someone to talk to and then clean everything up and go home around 1:00.

      After church your family decides to get food, you eat lunch, and then realize you have laundry to do.  You mechanically do your laundry and then finally drop dead on your bed, just to remember you didn't finish your summer reading.

      You pick up a book and feel your eyelids dropping shut.  You force your eyes open and finish your reading.  You finish your allotted reading and fall fast asleep for two blissful hours.

You wake up to hear your family watching a movie and stumble out of your room. You find that sleep makes you hungry and you stumble to the fridge, you sit down to watch the movie and realize that all that's left is the credits.
Normally you would go to youth group, but since it's labor day weekend  youth's been cancelled.  Your family goes to Home Depot to pick out paint for a home project.

(Don't judge you know you've always wanted to do this)

Your family has to get fast food because life's so crazy there's been no time to get groceries. 

  By the time you get home it's 8:30 p.m. and you're whipped, with more work to complete (like bogging).  

This leaves you exhausted for a new week.

So why do it? Why go to church every Sunday?  Because church is a family,and family is worth it because God has called his church to gather together, because sometimes rest isn't only physical.

Going to church each Sunday promises new faces and new experiences. From stacking chairs, to laying down mats for babies to play on, everyone four years and up is working hard.  I’m close friends with people who I never would have guessed I could be friends with.    When you work together closely with fellow believers toward the Gospel of Jesus Christ, theirs a beautiful unity which grows.