DAY 265 -- The Sabbath - 100 Days

I look forward to Sunday each week.  I thoroughly enjoy the three (at least) hours each Sunday when we pause and escape from the things of the world and reflect on the Eternal Perspective.  It is a time of refreshment, of rejuvenation, and gathering strength to tackle a new week. It is a time to remember our Savior.

I pause each week and try to feel direction from Father for the coming week.  I know He won't tell me much about what awaits me and us, but He can help me prepare in many ways.  I pause to remember the atonement and how much I need that in my life.  I consider how imperfect I am and strive to rededicate to the way of life I love and have chosen.  Often in pondering during the Sacrament Meeting, I get "insights" and hope in my mind to propel me into this coming week. 

I can't help but go away from those three hours built up, more prepared for the coming week, and with my focus on my Savior and my Father.  Then of course there are the testimonies given by fellow members. 

I know there are many who struggle with kids, with other things during those meetings and thus do not get much out of it.  But I also know that they get more than they think out of it, if it is nothing but obedience to the commandment that we meet weekly to partake of the sacrament.

Then of course it is always, or most always a battle to fight those sleeping gremlins that try to make me sleep through meetings.  If I am teaching, they don't have any success, but if I am not, it is often easy to feel those eyelids becoming heavier and heavier, and then I leave the meeting wondering what was said and what I missed.  I try to get lots of sleep (we don't have our meetings until 2:30 when they start) before we go, and thus hoping I can stay awake, but often that does not work. 

I believe it to be my age, always needing more sleep.  Guess you could call it beauty sleep, or just OLD AGE.  We won't fight about that right now.  Honestly, it can't be beauty sleep either, cause I don't have many beauty factors I continue to feed.  (I don't understand that either?)

It has been 100 days since we started this goal, dream, vision of going on a mission.  Tomorrow I will start evaluating our progress, or lack of it the last 100 days.