Make the Sabbath a delight.

Warning: This is going to be a very honest post. Don't judge me. Last weekend for conference one of my questions was, "how can I make the sabbath more of a delight for our family?" The sabbath hasn't been my favorite day for hmmmm a long time.  I don't think Chas has been home, well ever, on sundays. And I have my days where that is a hard thing.  But I have been determined to make it a delight, even if he is not around. The only thing that we had in common with the sabbath being a delight is that "fight" rhymes with "delight." Having late church and no dad and grouchy kids who have a hard time being inside all day, makes for a very long non-delightful day.

Anyhow after listening to conference last week, I was determined to make this sunday (yesterday) and any proceeding sundays a day of rest and delight.  I think just changing my attitude to, wanting to make a change instead of dreading the day, made a huge difference. Yesterday was one of the first sundays in a long time that we all went to bed happy.  We used to dread the upcoming week and all of the stress and turmoil that went with it, so sunday nights were just awful.  But last night was good.  I made sure yesterday that Brady was busy, he did family history almost the whole time before church.  If he is busy, I can keep the others busy fairly easy.  And it worked.  It was glorious.

 I am so thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who recognizes our efforts to change and try to be better and then he blesses us for it 10 fold! So I feel like I can keep on striving to make it a delight , to make it a day of rest and a day where we find joy in feeling the spirit and learning and striving to become more like our Savior, Jesus Christ.