Another great day!

ok, so I don't mean to be mushy or anything but today was just the best day! It's the day we use for Sabbath so we try, on wednesdays to, as Terry puts it, "Do sabbathy things." Like we don't usually do things we "should" do. We try to "cease" which is what Sabbath means. And we try to have "holy attention" toward God. On the weeks we stick with this it is such a blessing for us. Sundays are not very sabbathy for us because we mostly have responsibilities and, though I don't suppose it should be that way, we get stressed about them. It's been quite a journey for us. Definitely a learning thing. Anyway, back to today... We were in charge of Pizza church and we'd decided on a thanksgiving type dinner (pizza church is seldom pizza). So the day began with me working out while watching "Enjoying Everyday Life" with Joyce Meyer, followed by Creflo Dollar. both were good so that started my day right. Then after a breakfast of eggs and toast we cleaned up for the day. I started the rolls raising and the apple pies I'd frozen earlier in the week baking. We did our devotions and prayer and then had some intimacy time together. We had a good visit with Terra. Then Terry went to the doctor and had some questionable things taken off of his face and got groceries while I formed the rolls, peeled potatoes as I listened to "Stones into Schools". A great book by the guy our church is honoring at the peace colloquey. I made jello and Then we both took a nap. After our nap we started the ham and turkey baking and we loaded up the 4 wheeler and drove to the ranch. On the way we mailed our tax checks and dropped some of my lovely sweet peas off to a woman who had a 4 wheeler accident yesterday. At the ranch we rode up into the hills with Zip. It was so silent and it looked like no one had been in the hills for a long time. The grass is so tall and things are relatively green for a September afternoon. We gathered a few lovely rocks for my rock garden. When we got home our new neighbor was outside so we went up to meet him and his family. They seem so nice. 3 girls and their Mom is the new special ed teacher. Then we went into definitely not sabbathy mode, cut up the meats, boiled the potatoes and mashed them, made gravy (got mad because I forgot to make cheese grits), warmed up the beats, cooked beans with onions, loaded the car and went to church. Sometimes when you work really hard on pizza church only a small number show and you have huge leftovers. Tonight there were loads of people and appreciated our efforts and ate well. Jonathan Haacke hugged me and said how thankful her was to see me (he's in high school). His Mom snuck in and did all the dishes for us. A definite plus. People shared so well and 3 of my brothers came and we had our highs and lows and then sang "Happy Birthday" to Kerry. I realized sitting there how very much I love our congregation. One new couple told us they wanted to join our marriage support bible study that we'll start soon and also wanted a parenting class. he's fresh out of prison and wanting to do well. I'm so proud of them. No one seemed to want to leave and it was just a great evening. So now we're home. We cleaned up the dishes and Terry's playing solitaire and I read Travis's blog which is just always a treat. So...who could possibly have a better day? It just seemed like God was just right close to us all day.