Sunday, August 21, 2011

Sunday Struggle

Time for the weekly (actually it's daily but I don't write about it every day) spiritual struggle.

Do I go to church or do I do some of the 1 MILLION things I'm neglecting around my home?

This is going to sound absolutely self righteous, but I feel like I live each day of my life serving God and praying and giving everything I have to do good work for my family and the community.  By the time Sunday rolls around, I am exhausted but still have tons of work to do b/c during the week I have largely ignored my obligation to keep my house clean!

So I stress out about not going to church and taking a little time to relax during the service and maybe gain some motivation and spiritual enrichment.  However, going to church takes about 2 hours time (getting showered, dressed, driving to and from, socializing, etc) and I could have one of the rooms in the house semi-cleaned in that time. 

So anyways, I'm trying to "clear my conscience" by saying I already did all my "God-work" this week and now it's time for "Family-work" (i only get "Me-work" time around 9ish at night when they all go to bed).

But briefly a little rant on some ridiculous (IMHO) religious people:
Noah’s Ark theme park project aims to show Bible’s stories true
see: http://thechronicleherald.ca/Religion/1259276.html

This just makes me mad (especially on a Sunday) when there are so many more important problems in the world that I believe God would want us to address. Who really needs another theme park and why do they use all their time & money to "prove" something from "history"? Why can't they use this money to feed to poor, heal the sick, clothe the naked, etc.??



1 comments:

Susie said...

I too have this dilemma. There was an amazing story on Arch Bishop Dolan from NY and he addresses the Catholics leaving the church. He was so amazing and makes me want to go to St Peters for mass just to get me back in the spiritual mode. I miss the days of a parish/church home where you and your neighbors lived and shared their spirituality. I feel like it is a big church competition here. Who is right? They guy with the highest steeple? You definitely do God's work everyday...

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