is this yuppyhood?
Our Weekend
-decent Chinese takeout (piping hot from them to us in 15 minutes)
-big, fat, 5-inch thick, week-old Sunday Times ('cause they end up taking me a whole week to read)
-sealing Craigslist deals, our latest finds: a painted screen and hallway table
-lunch with Dr. T in Brooklyn Chinatown, picked up all the stuff we left with him (it can mean nothing good when one is excited to see one's old cleaning supplies)
-driving out to Long Island Macy's to swap wedding presents (unruffle those feathers dear reader, they weren't YOURS)
-getting sucked into Macy's special promos (20% here! 25% there!)...belts, shoes, bags, wallets...eeek!
-hitting up Ikea for odds and ends and plants and mass produced art work
-staying up late to set up and organize and rearrange
And then, the last questionable activity (I struggle with buying more stuff, getting stuff too easily, what's a NEED anyway?)...Ordering groceries online. A few clicks of the mouse and ding-dong! at your door at the conveniently clicked time. Kinda scary. Do I like this? Is this good? To borrow from Dylan Thomas--rage, rage against unquestioned yuppiness!
In my readings this week, God keeps hammering over and over again that there are special days, festivals where people are to remember, celebrate, and DO NO REGULAR WORK. Do no regular work, repeated like 800 times in one chapter. And that got me thinking about Sundays and sabbath.
Our *favourite* pastor has a great talk on the sabbath--that God establishes it because of our inexhaustable drive to do, prove, achieve. Guilty as charged. That the sabbath is not necessarily for NO activity, but *avocational activity*, things you don't normally do each normal day, but to enjoy things that will restore you and refresh you! Isn't this so incredibly gracious of God? To forsee the toxic hazards of our fallen restlessness and FREE us up TO rest! To celebrate life and life with Him!
Be it resolved that there will be no more shopping or housework or other normal work on Sundays as much as can be helped.
-decent Chinese takeout (piping hot from them to us in 15 minutes)
-big, fat, 5-inch thick, week-old Sunday Times ('cause they end up taking me a whole week to read)
-sealing Craigslist deals, our latest finds: a painted screen and hallway table
-lunch with Dr. T in Brooklyn Chinatown, picked up all the stuff we left with him (it can mean nothing good when one is excited to see one's old cleaning supplies)
-driving out to Long Island Macy's to swap wedding presents (unruffle those feathers dear reader, they weren't YOURS)
-getting sucked into Macy's special promos (20% here! 25% there!)...belts, shoes, bags, wallets...eeek!
-hitting up Ikea for odds and ends and plants and mass produced art work
-staying up late to set up and organize and rearrange
And then, the last questionable activity (I struggle with buying more stuff, getting stuff too easily, what's a NEED anyway?)...Ordering groceries online. A few clicks of the mouse and ding-dong! at your door at the conveniently clicked time. Kinda scary. Do I like this? Is this good? To borrow from Dylan Thomas--rage, rage against unquestioned yuppiness!
In my readings this week, God keeps hammering over and over again that there are special days, festivals where people are to remember, celebrate, and DO NO REGULAR WORK. Do no regular work, repeated like 800 times in one chapter. And that got me thinking about Sundays and sabbath.
Our *favourite* pastor has a great talk on the sabbath--that God establishes it because of our inexhaustable drive to do, prove, achieve. Guilty as charged. That the sabbath is not necessarily for NO activity, but *avocational activity*, things you don't normally do each normal day, but to enjoy things that will restore you and refresh you! Isn't this so incredibly gracious of God? To forsee the toxic hazards of our fallen restlessness and FREE us up TO rest! To celebrate life and life with Him!
Be it resolved that there will be no more shopping or housework or other normal work on Sundays as much as can be helped.
posted by Duncan and Jen | 9:10 PM
1 Comments:
Love the message about the Sabbath - dbush & I really felt that it cleared up some of the ambiguity of what it means to respect the Sabbath & keep it Holy.
However, I think that cleaning & chores will become part of my avocational activity b/c it does refresh me (I get such a sense of accomplishment!) and unfortunately it is not regular work done throughout the week even though I had resolved to do so!
Yay to no Sunday shopping :)
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