Day 6

Today is Saturday.  The day I set aside to do all of the things around the house that I don't have a chance to get to during the week.  Also, I'm getting ready for my daughter to come home for a week long visit so I'm getting her room ready for her.  This room needs a lot of work.  She never actually lived here as she was an adult when we moved in and has only been back for short visits from time to time.  The room has ugly tan wallpaper with a juvenile border of bunnies and tulips.  Granted the border is kind of pretty - but the whole room needs a major overhaul.  We are getting a new bed for the room and the old futon is gone so there is relatively little furniture in the room.  I would like to strip the wall paper and paint before bringing the new bed in.  This brings me to my dilemma - do I keep to the plan and strip the wall paper or do I take a break and spend a couple of hours in the art museum.  There is something about visiting art museums that refreshes me and sparks my own creativity.  It's good for me. 

It is so easy for me to blow off something like a visit to the museum on a Saturday afternoon - after all the museum will be there next week and the week after.  But thinking about it, this idea that the museum will be there next week - it's a lot like life.  So many activities that are meant to nourish and refresh me go undone.  Mostly because of inertia, or the press of the things that need to be done, or because I postpone the things I want to do for the things I feel I should do.  Or because I put nourishing myself last in my list of priorities.  This also applies to my faith life.  As a person who struggles with legalism - I somehow have the belief that following Jesus means that I always need to be "working" on something - my faith, a ministry, even the chores around the house.  It's hard to believe that Jesus would be saying - "go to the museum - it will be to your benefit, you will grow spiritually and creatively"  Yet that is what I hear him saying - that this trip on this day is one that I need to make and that by going, I will take a step closer to being the person I was created to be. 

So today, I'll spend time with Jesus at the art museum.