A relaxed Sunday

I had the bestest day today. I did nothing. I mean, truly, nothing.

I woke up about 9am to the sounds of my housemate baking cookies! Not a bad start to the day... but then I stayed in bed until about 11am, just lolling about with a book and my thoughts. It was a nice cool day today - only about 27C when I woke up in my room, and there was electricity, so I could have my fan blowing a little breeze. It's not every day that it's actually cool enough to want to stay in bed for hours. I finally pulled myself out of my bed at about 11am, took a nice long shower (by then, the sun had warmed the water a bit, so it wasn't frighteningly cold!), and then went back to my bed to see what John Piper had to share with me today from my MP3 player. He had a great sermon about the Kingdom of heaven being a treasure - and the joy that it is to give up everything we have on earth to gain that treasure. Gave me some food for thought, as usual.

I then got up long enough to have a bit of food and some water. Then I went back to my bed to listen to some music. It's been a really, really long time since I last just sat and listened to music. And it was so nice.

I also read a few chapters of my book, but mostly, I just laid on my bed and listened to music! What a beautiful relaxing day it was. I think I needed the rest, after the busy week I had last week, coupled with my sickness. I'm still coughing a bit, and I have a bit of a stuffy/runny nose, but especially after today's lolling about and doing nothing, I feel more rested than I have in a really, really long time.

Of course, no Sunday would be complete without my Sunday evening study/fellowship. It's really a great time to get together with other folks and have a little "church" service. It's one of the highlights of my week, which was one of the reasons I was so upset about missing it last week due to my sickness :( So it was extra special today because I felt so much better and was able to enjoy the time with friends, studying and praying together.

This is going to be a bit of a crazy week, as well, as we have a workshop supposedly starting tomorrow for the Ministry of Education. We're doing things a bit differently this time, and I have a feeling I'll be taking care of a lot of the logistics for this workshop, so please pray that it all goes smoothly. It's for a small-ish group (probably only about 10 of us), so it's not so bad. But you never quite know what's going to happen sometimes, so I'm always a little on edge when it comes to the logistics of a workshop! I'm also looking forward to the content of the workshop, as we have a visiting consultant who I think I will learn a lot from, as well.

It's nearing 10:30, and we're running on the generator again tonight, so I have to go find my charged head-lamp batteries and get things ready for the plunge into the darkness... Hope you all have as restful a Sunday as I did!