Sunday, A Day Of Rest and Joy

We pause at the beginning of our week to STOP our hectic pace to take TIME to acknowledge and worship our God, our Creator, our Love.  Ideally, we prepare for the celebration of the Holy Eucharist and spend the day in a prayer of thanksgiving, reflection and sacred reading to nourish our spiritual lives.  Ideally, yes, but not always the case.  God is patient with us and knows with whom he is working, as he did with the Peter how jumped in to declare that Jesus was the Messiah, the Son of God, and yet a year or two later, would deny him three times to a servant girl.  This was the ROCK upon which Jesus chose to build his Church.   A good lesson for us, that despite our "good" but fruitless intentions, God sticks with us and gives us chance after chance to make good on our promises and our potential.  Perhaps this thought alone can motivate us to make this Sunday a day of rest and joy, different from our usual Sundays and the days of our work week.
Bro. Rene