My Restful Sabbath Day

Sunday, January 27, 2008, by Leigh Anne

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It’s Sunday evening and I don’t usually post but I just had to share with you my morning. My husband is out of town so the girls and I were sleeping in (it was 9 a.m. and that is sleeping in for me - not the girls). Yesterday had been a big day - I spent the day at a 1,700 person customer event at our Expo Center in town - a great day but I was tired!

The phone rang, waking me up, it was the mother of the young woman who was to teach our Sunday School lesson today - her daughter had been up all night throwing up - I needed to teach the lesson - great! I drug my body out of bed to “throw” together a last minute lesson.

An hour later (which was now an hour before church) my oldest daughter finally got up and said “Hey - wasn’t Tessa suppose to give a talk in church today?” Well - she was and we had totally forgotten! No one had written it on the calendar so - out of sight - out of mind!

Now this brought on major panic to my teenager and she announced “We can’t go to church!” You see, her name would be in the program stating she was giving a talk and she would be sitting in the congregation, not giving a talk. Obviously we had been flakes and forgotten - so true- but who wants the whole church to know!! Not my teenage daughter.

So it was now my job to call the person at church in charge to let them know we were total “flakes” and had forgotten - sorry! Don’t you just love those kind of phone calls. I could have given him a whole list of reasons why we had forgotten - finals week at school, hosting a 1,700 person event at the Expo Center, my father had major surgery this week, instead I just told the truth -we forgot!

Fortunately for my daughter the names of the speakers had not made it into the church program so at least the whole congregation wouldn’t know we had forgotten and we didn’t have to stay home from church in embarrassment.

We went to church, no one knew the better and my lesson went well. After church we made Grandpa some cupcakes and visited him in the hospital - he’s doing better and will come home tomorrow and now I am off to get a little rest at the end of my Sabbath Day and watch a little Jane Austen. (Masterpiece Theater - take me away!)

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