When President Nelson spoke at this April's General Conference, I remember thinking that to focus on trying to make the Sabbath a delight gave me an entirely different set of expectations than just having the Sabbath be a day of rest or of worship. So how could I make my Sabbath a day of rest and worship, but also delightful? I think we're heading in a good direction here in the Cluff home.
Sundays have always been a treat because Marty doesn't work on Sundays, we get him for the entire day. I've been thinking a lot lately about how grateful I am for Sundays because it gives us at least one whole day together as a family every week. If we didn't believe that the Sabbath was a holy day, he most certainly would be working and we would not have that precious time together.
On Sundays when the kids go down for naps or after they go to bed at night, Marty and I have some rare free time that we try and use to do something edifying like studying the scriptures together or reading a conference talk. And we also often end up sneaking in a nap or an early bedtime. For those reasons, Sundays have always been delightful to some degree.
But then nap time would be over, and we would often end up just laying around the house all day. This was the part of the day that seemed to rob a little of the specialness away from Sundays. So instead of that, for several of the last month or so's worth of Sunday afternoons we have been going for a walk with the kids and randomly stopping to visit with people in our ward. Because we live here in Utah, we're lucky enough to be able to walk the entire ward in about a mile. A liiiiitle different than my California wards. It's become such a treat to spend a little extra time with other members of the ward, and often with those members that we haven't known very well until we decided to knock on the door. We are usually well received, I think it's because people seem to love cute little kids... and we have two of them, and everyone seems to come away uplifted. That has really helped to make our Sabbath a delightful day.
What do you do to make your Sabbath a delight?
Labels: Faith, Family, Personal Growth