Hi, precious
sister!
I will make sure
Pastor reads your well thought out article. And I wish to heck I GOT a day off…
it seldom happens for me… or for Richard, as a rule. The way it goes is that
during the week, we are, of course, WAY too tired and have 1 hour TOPS to be
awake at home. So by the time the weekend comes, if anything special needs
doing, it has to get done on Saturday. Take last weekend, for instance. We had
to go into town to (a) get my tires put on, since I drive on the same tires 550
miles/week (LITERALLY), (b) pick up the dogs’ items at the feedstore, and (c)
stop by the grocery. By the time we got home, it was 2 PM! And since Richard’s
BD was 1/13 (a Tuesday), I made his BD dinner and dessert on Saturday. Because
by this point in time, the things that I have to do on the weekends obviously
were put off until Sunday. Well, what I have to do each weekend is a week’s
worth of washing, a week’s worth of Daily Updates (no time to do them all from
scratch in the weekday mornings, except for putting up daily news articles and
prayer requests, which alone take about 2 hours in the morning, stopping to get
Richard’s lunch made, seeing him off, uploading, checking the links, putting up
the previous night’s dishes, and getting ready to leave for work), and wash my
hair/shave. What I wouldn’t give to be able to rest a whole
day!
Trust me, sis, I’m
not saying these things to argue with you, I’m just letting you know that while
I understand what you’re saying (and agree with you about the need to rest), the
way things go these days, it seldom happens for us or anyone else. In most
families these days, BOTH partners HAVE to work. If I didn’t work (and I’ve
been working for 32 years straight!), we would have no insurance, because
Richard’s is WAY expensive, and mine is not. And with all the health problems
he’s had, that’s a necessity, not a luxury. Not to mention that as expensive as
everything is these days, we wouldn’t even be able to pay our monthly bills, and
our County has the cheapest bills I know of!
Now, GF, ask me how
forward am I looking to the Rapture??? :)
LY!
Peggy
www.his-forever.com