The Fourth Commandment
The Fourth Commandment:
Remember the Sabbath Day, and keep it holy. For six days you shall labor and do all of your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work-you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.Boy, did my Mother ever believe in that! We kids were raised up to believe that we did nothing on Sunday that remotely resembled work. That meant no cutting with scissors, no sewing with a needle, no crocheting, or doing anything like cleaning or working around the house. If you did you were doomed for Hell!
Of course she cooked our meals, fed the chickens and pigs , milked the cows, and if we went to church that took an hour of work getting three kids ready for church!
She always quoted the phrase in the bible--I can't tell you where--which says, in so many words, that if your ox gets in the ditch on Sunday you have to get it out.
In later years I think she somewhat mellowed about all of that, because there are things you have to do on Sunday.
Now people work on Sunday just like any other day of the week. I do think you can avoid some things but others you can't.
I always think of the saying--again I can't tell you the source--that says an idle mind is the devil's workshop. So I do some things on Sunday which she would have cringed at, such as crocheting, embroidering or other fun hobbies. I feel I am only occupying my mind and keeping the devil out!
I do believe people have overdone their work on Sundays and do not even think of The Lord. Mama was right about some things but I think she was over conscious about others.
posted by kyra lafain @ 11/29/2010 12:30:00 PM
1 Comments:
I think there's a happy medium there. I feel like the stress levels are so high today because we don't take Sunday off like we used to. There's a reason for everything God told us to do -- we need that day to rest our bodies and do things like crocheting. Sunday used to be a family day, but families find it hard now to get together, because somebody's always working on Sunday. Not all of the old ways were bad! It wouldn't hurt us to not be able to shop at the mall on Sunday!
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