A Day of Rest

What a needed weekend of rest. The weather has been beautiful and Tim and I had a great weekend. Friday night we went out for mexican food, yum... I could eat mexican food every day. I have been in search of my favorite enchiladas, and actually I'm still searching. Our favorite mexican restaurant is Guadalajuara, our most visited restaurant is El Jarrito's (it's really close) and we visited our old-old time favorite, Las Cucos, this time and had a great meal, though the enchiladas were not my favorite. I've decided that Tim's brother Paul's enchiladas are my favorite, and hopefully I will get to savor them sometime during Thanksgiving week.

We did weekend catch up stuff around the house. We slept in late. We went to a "night of worship" special service at church on Saturday night. It was great, very much an intimate time of worship with a lot of free reign to participate whenever and however you felt moved to, i.e., standing, sitting, lifting hands, "dancing", communing, praying. It was a crisp clear night and nowhere else we'd rather be than worshipping our creator.

This morning the whole town of Katy went out for breakfast. Seriously, we tried Cracker Barrel, IHOP, Waffle House and finally had, a delicious breakfast I might add, at Whataburger ~ their taquitos are excellent!

Then we went to our class and to church. We have been worshipping at Kingsland since early summer. What a blessing it has been for us! The pastor is such a man after God's own heart, and is so encouraging for each of us to have that same passion, to be God-seeking and living for God every moment. He is currently doing a series on "First and Ten", the Ten Commandments and how they are a pattern for living, from our God, that makes our lives nicer, even in New Testament times.

Today's lesson was on keeping the Sabbath. That we still need a day of rest and that God has given us that blessing. He gave practical ways to set the mood in your house for a day of rest and ways to bring that rest upon yourself. Here are some of the ways: pray, meditate, light a candle to set the mood in your family, listen to only Christian music (have it on in the morning while you get ready for church) all day, worship, take a nap, take a walk ~ enjoy nature, read your Bible, give a blessing to your mate and/or children, and allow yourself to be refreshed. What a blessing the rest of the Sabbath is, for our taking. He encouraged us to turn off the world and shared how the church leadership has consciously avoided scheduling meetings for the myriad of good works on Sunday afternoon/evening. Just wanted to share what a blessing our day of rest has been and encourage you to take advantage of the blessing God has given us by giving us a day of rest.

~ <3 Terri