In truth, I hardly ever feel completely happy about lazy days. I like to be doing something useful, even if it relates to leisure activities. Yet, it’s nice to rest too. We were made to work, rest and play.
1966 must have been a lazy year because it provided the two best songs about laziness – in my opinion anyway 😀.
I remember buying On the Threshold of a Dream, a 1969 Moody Blues album, in the Uneeda record shop in Cork, in a sale in March 1977. My favourite track on it was Lazy Day.
They say a change is as good as a rest. I’ve always appreciated the weekends. I have specific routines for Saturday and Sunday. The only thing is that having Monday looming can spoil Sunday. Maybe a time will come when everyone will have Monday off too. But then we might dread Tuesday 😀.
In the New Testament, the pharisees used to make all sorts of strict rules and regulations about the Sabbath, and insist that people stick to them, but Jesus often took them to task.
Mark 2:27
“The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.”
Jesus clarified that the Sabbath is meant to serve people’s needs—not the other way around. This was a direct challenge to the Pharisees’ strict interpretations.
I find that it’s nice to have a specific day when I can go to church and focus on spiritual things at home. For example, I always enjoy listening to Sounds Sacred at 5pm on Sundays. And a few hymns focus on the delights of the Lord’s day.
There isn’t the same emphasis on the Sabbath in the New Testament as there was in the old. Yet, it seems that the believers met on the first day of the week. They didn’t necessarily have a day off, but now that we do have the day off, I’ve always seen it as an opportunity to turn my eyes on Jesus. As the hymns says “And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace.”
Hibernia Gospel 
Dear Hibernia
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I wonder why we think about a cat when thinking about lazy days.
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