Last Sunday I took a vacation from church. Well just from my church. We joined family members at another church which they attend. It was nice. Like most vacations it was a refreshing change of scenery. Like most vacations, I was ready to return to my home church the following week. However, this week I took another vacation. I just stayed home. I didn’t have a particular reason. I just did.
It seems taking a vacation can become a habit. I looked over my blog and noticed I had only posted 8 times in February. February is a short month, but not that short. I like to think of my blogging as “almost daily.” Apparently another vacation. I’m not sure my reduced blogging schedule was missed by anyone. I do the blogging principally for me. I like to do it first thing in the morning and it helps me start me day in the Word and “seeking the kingdom first.”
Vacations are nice. They can be refreshing and stimulating. We need them. We do need to keep them in their proper place. Our mission is not to be refreshed or stimulated. It’s not to do something different. It’s to do what we are called to do, every day. To do it when it’s rewarding and when it’s dry as desert sand.
It’s the greatest blessing in life to know what we are called to do and to do it. It’s exciting to have a purpose and to see that purpose mature and shift and, at times, radically change. It’s like mountain tops and valleys. Mountain tops are breathtaking and exciting. The fertile areas are down in the valley, where there is a lot more work than rest, where the roads are winding and sometimes there is no sunshine.
Vacation is over. It’s time to get back to work.
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