My Sunday Activities

On the Jukebox: "Variations on an English Melody: If You Could Hie to Kolob" by Lex De Azevedo
Mood: Tranquil
Scripture: "O be wise; what can I say more?" Jacob 6:12
Flair: Zombie

This morning as I was laying in bed staring at the ceiling, I pondered why Sundays - which I love, are so hard for me. It's because I try to set them apart from other days of the week. I only allow myself to listen to sacred music and do spiritually uplifting activities. The other six days of the week it's pretty much a given that I'll be down in my basement office tapping away on the keyboard. I average 10 pages a day on my latest book, along with various articles, research papers, and Blog entries. It's my job you know, so that means I shouldn't do it on Sunday.

Is it possible to write and keep the Sabbath day holy? Absolutely! Start by writing letters to your grandparents (mine are dead), missionaries, and local editors. Not a letter writer? Then it's okay to Blog... just be sure to discuss things that are acceptable like your favorite scripture, the gospel doctrine lesson, or something insightful you learned at last General Conference. Do I detect the sound of snoring? How rude! There are times when I do want to discuss such topics, however, I have decided to dedicate my Sunday posts to something else which is also uplifting but not as deep.

You see, I've got another Blog (no, really?!) and I've decided to give it a nice overhaul. I've pulled all the posts back into the draft folder so I can organize them and give them unified formatting and maybe talk Grant into customizing my template. The Blog is called "Each Life That Touches Ours For Good" and was created as a place where I could honor people who have taught me the importance of friendship through their patience examples. Throughout my life I've been blessed with choice experiences, both great and small, that have impacted how I see myself and others. Often I lack the courage (for fear of embarrassing myself or them) to tell these people what they mean to me or how their actions have changed me for the better. So I felt a Blog was a nice solution.

Now I have to figure out how I'm going to reorganize my posts. Should I go by their B-day, length of friendship, alphabetical, strength of bond, a trait I admire, whether I have a picture of them to post or a funny anecdote about them, or something else? Maybe people may be offended if I don't spotlight them individually, but this it was never meant to be an ego-stroker so much as an exploration of how my personality and outlook on life evolved as a direction result of knowing them. I'll do my first spotlight next Sunday and post the link to that Blog. BTW, I've already chosen the person I'm going to spotlight first so don't bother to kiss up ;)