Why Wednesday?by Alicia Goodrow
Why Wednesday?
by Alicia Goodrow
“Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it Holy.” This is the 4th Commandment which instructs us to gather together as a community to give thanks and praise to God, remember and celebrate our faith as a community, and ask for forgiveness and strength in the week to come. Following this commandment we often make Sunday a time of rest and reflection in our busy lives – a sabbatical from our hectic weeks.
But what about Wednesday?
There is nothing restful or relaxing about Wednesday. It hardly seems holy at all. Even Wednesday is a “day that the Lord has made and we are to rejoice and be glad in it.” But by the time I make it through the traffic, the lost lunch kits, the homework supervision, the nagging client calls on my cellphone, fifteen changes of music on the car radio, and the spilled water bottle in my back seat, I’m not doing much rejoicing on hot Houston Wednesday afternoons...
Until I arrive at Wednesday Night Alive!
At WNA I find the sabbatical I need in the midst of the weekday storms. Food, friends, music, laughing babies, noisy and happy children, Martha with knitting needles making prayer shawls, Don with a smile and food cart, a song, a prayer, and place to celebrate the joy of everyday life. Besides, I don’t have to cook and I can sing as much as I like.
But what do you find on Wednesdays at CTK?
Can you find a place to take a Sabbath break from your everyday concerns? A time to be served and to listen and rest?
Can you find place to have a meaningful and respectful conversation about our world and those in it?
Can you find a place to serve others, and in serving, forget some of the cares of your own life?
Can you find a place to be creative in art, in music, in making dinner, in telling stories?
Can we find a place for us all to fulfill the covenants of Baptism made with God and our children while tossing water balloons, making origami, learning the Godly Play lesson, or bouncing in Music Explorers? Bring them to the Lord’s House. Teach them the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed and the Ten Commandments. Put Scripture in their Hands. We can do that….together.
Will you find Wednesdays this fall?
We all need our sabbaticals and our Sabbath Days. It is exactly because our weeks are so stressful and overbooked that we need to remember Wednesday and keep it as a holy time to grow in faith and love to each other and as servants in the world around us. Come, see, serve, sing, rest….and eat dinner with your friends….on Wednesdays.