Sunday Morning Sidewalks

     I love Sundays. I think I can say that Sunday is my favorite day of the week. Wednesday would have to be a close second, I am not sure why but, I just love Wednesday. But, Sunday, that is what we are here to talk about. I very much enjoy Sunday, especially the mornings. I love going to church every Sunday. I love feeling the presence of the Almighty God, this in not to say that the only time I feel His presence is on Sunday morning during the church service, on the contrary each day I wander in His Glory. However, there is a certain aspect to this on Sunday morning, being gathered together in a body of believers. My soul rejoices at the chance to see the faces of those I love and what's more is I can feel the love they have towards me. I am fortunate enough to belong to an awesome church, a very healing church actually. It isn't a matter of worrying about judgement or any of that but, just feeling the love of Christ. There is no perfect church. If you are looking for one you might as well stop now because each and every one of us is broken and only made whole by the sacrifice of Christ our Savior. We're all sinners, one of my favorite authors, Robert Louis Stevenson, said this, "The saints are the sinners who keep on trying." What a concept! Notice the word "keep" not "kept" it isn't past put present. We "keep" on trying. That is all of us, so long as we keep on trying, so long as we live in the Love. That is what church is a bunch of sainted sinners that no matter how lost, damaged, or broken we are, we are going to gather together in acknowledgement of our iniquities but, by the Goodness of our Father in Heaven we are made new by the acceptance of the Sacrifice of the Son.
     To be made new, I like that thought. I think that is part of the reason I enjoy Sundays. Sunday the beginning of the week. Whether or not you get to enjoy Sunday as a day off it marks something new a chance to start over, as it were. Bad week? Hey, here's a Sunday to start over. I mean, I suppose one could do that with each sunrise. But, a new week is always nice, it gives you more time to plan the goals you need to set for yourself. I believe it gives us a new chance to focus our lives on the more important things in life. At the start of a new week I find myself thinking and talking with God on where He wants me to be, making sure I am headed in the right direction for where I know I need to be. Every Sunday I get the chance to center myself around His infinite wisdom and the splendor I find in His word.
     Then, I have to say that my favorite way to close out a Sunday is to either take my camera or my dog out for a walk. I rarely take both, wrangling a two year old 60-70 puppy is hard to do when you are trying to take photos. I love to wander. My whole life I have been a wanderer. I love to explore the grandeur that the Creator has put at our fingertips. To see the sunsets in all there wonder. I do not understand how it is that one can walk upon this earth and especially when you get out into "nature" and not see the wonders of God. I know I am starting to sound like a transcendentalist but, honestly how? I suppose (and sincerely I mean not to offend anyone) it is because their eyes are not open or more accurately they and not awake, spiritually that is. It is hard to see the majesty of the Creator if you have not decided to look upon the world with His eyes. Even if we disregarded the nature of this world for a moment and just look at people. When you walk through life and see the beauty and ultimate potential in each individual you come encounter with. What a spectacle, and to know that God does not sleep, that at every single moment of or existence He is trying to tap into our potential, that he never gives up trying to lift His children up to the heights he created them to dwell in. How blessed and fortunate are we to be able to see  and experience all these things. I am always living in constant amazement at His power as I wander every waking minute in His Glory.
     That is why I love Sundays. Why to me it is the most fulfilling day of my week. And when all that runs out throughout the course of the week I get to start all over again the next Sunday. Eh, perhaps I'll talk about Wednesday sometime. Stay blessed friends.