http://aroomofmamasown.com/2009/11/sabbath/ Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://aroomofmamasown.com/2009/11/sabbath/comment-page-1/#comment-6617 The Second Road Family » My First Sabbath Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:41:43 +0000 http://aroomofmamasown.com/?p=2082#comment-6617 [...] Last week, oddly inspired by the humorous book The Year of Living Biblically, I decided I wanted to try to add a little Sabbath into my own life. Couldn’t I use a day of rest once a week, even if I didn’t have an organized religion backing me up? And because I’m not part of any organized religion, I’m not bound to keep my Sabbath on a Judeo-Christian Saturday or Sunday. In fact, I didn’t want to. After all, if you have kids (or maybe just if you have my kids), you’ll know that “rest” and “the kids have a day off from school” are far (very, very far) from complimentary for parents. So, I decided to pick the more convenient (to me) Wednesday instead. Yep, it’ll just be me and the Anglo-Saxon pagans who worship Woden, for whom the day is named. [...] [...] Last week, oddly inspired by the humorous book The Year of Living Biblically, I decided I wanted to try to add a little Sabbath into my own life. Couldn’t I use a day of rest once a week, even if I didn’t have an organized religion backing me up? And because I’m not part of any organized religion, I’m not bound to keep my Sabbath on a Judeo-Christian Saturday or Sunday. In fact, I didn’t want to. After all, if you have kids (or maybe just if you have my kids), you’ll know that “rest” and “the kids have a day off from school” are far (very, very far) from complimentary for parents. So, I decided to pick the more convenient (to me) Wednesday instead. Yep, it’ll just be me and the Anglo-Saxon pagans who worship Woden, for whom the day is named. [...]

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