Contemplation...

In recent weeks life has been so busy...  indeed, it seems some days are spent running literally from one thing to another!
This past week has been no exception to that!  It's been busy, but productive...  good, but crazy at the same time! 

In all of this activity, again the thought comes back about the Biblical command to rest...  to have a day of rest in which we honor the Lord and spend the whole day in worship and praise of our Lord, and in fellowship with other believers.

As a large family, I look at the praciticality of this and how to make it all work (no pun intended) - the logstics, if you will...  such as "is it ok to wash dishes" - we know we need to feed our families, but we can cook ahead so that we're not *working* on meal prep on the Sabbath...  we eat off of plates, though - and I don't know about other large families, but we don't have enough dishes to go through an entire day without washing a single dish...  of course, we could use paper plates...  it's not so much a question of legalism, it's a question of obedience...  and this is just one small example that leaves me wondering at times - what's ok and what's not ok in trying to honor the Sabbath as the Lord commands? 

How do we, as wives and mamas, prepare ahead to honor the Lord's day while also still caring for our families?

This has been a subject of thought many times over - and sometimes I wonder if I'm really any closer to answering the question with an answer that would please our Lord...  It's something to contemplate, to be sure...  we want to live in obedience - and it's easy to live in DISobedience without even realizing or giving conscious thought to it, isn't it?  So, in an effort toward wanting to PURPOSE to live in obediece, I contemplate this (and other issues) and look for the Lord's guidance...