My first & last Sunday to-do list

It's Sunday at 9:30 PM.

I should be feeling physically rested, mentally clear, and spiritually rejuvenated,

but instead I'm feeling worn out.

I don't think I used my Sunday the way it was intended.

The problem: I'm a list person.

Every Friday, I make a list of the things I need to accomplish before the weekend is over and divide them up between Friday, Saturday, and Monday.

But this weekend... I thought I would try something different.

I decided to make a "Sunday list"

with a few things I thought would be appropriate uses of my time.

Because I've done a few video and photo projects as a service lately,

I figured I could catch up by editing them on Sunday because I wasn't being paid.

But the catch was, even though I wasn't being paid, I was still checking things off my to-do list when I should have been focusing on the Lord's to-do list for me.

Did I spend any time in the scriptures?

Did I pray to find people around me to serve in a meaningful way?

Did I take time just to meditate, ponder and listen?

Nope.

Sure, the things I was doing were good things.

But they weren't the best things I could have been doing.

The result: me, writing this blog post and wishing I could have a Sunday do-over.

But do you know what's great?

I do get a Sunday do-over.

No, not immediately, but in six days, I'll be given another Sunday to try to be better with.

And in the meantime, I get another Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday to try to be better than I was last week.

And so do you!

Thank goodness for that.

So here's to being better tomorrow than we were today.

Love,