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I’ll push it further. The very concept of “the weekend” is unbiblical. It turns Sunday into a second Saturday. Home Depot may gain, but we lose. It turns Sunday into the day we catch up on the stuff we were too lazy or disorganized to do on Saturday. It also turns Sunday into a day to ramp up for work or school on Monday. It hollows out not only Sunday but our whole week, because it marginalizes God and church and sermons and all the other vital things that happen in our lives only when we make the vital things also the central things. If we accept the world’s concept of “the weekend,” we inevitably end up “fitting God in” rather than centering the practical reality of our every week around him. We trivialize him, even as we allow secondary things to hijack the sacred place of centrality, we live soul-exhausted lives, and then we wonder why God isn’t more real to us, why church isn’t “working” for us, why we’re grumpy, and so forth. -Ray Orlund, Jr.

April 30, 2004

Here’s the IM version of the Business Meeting rant.

Looks like we are going to get our game in today. Good thing. I am overloaded on sunflower seeds.

My daughter is in Boston, Mass this weekend, just having a great time. My son turns 16 tomorrow. He had a surprise party at school today. Clay is one great kid. I’m so proud of him for the kind of person he is as well as all he does. He like having a good friend as well as a son. God has really given him some interesting gifts. People like him, which is something he gets from him mother, and he is the kind of person everyone likes to be around. He has my sense of humor and love of music, and his mom’s easy going temperament. Right now he has hair, but I think he’ll take after me in that department, so I am giving him Rogaine for a gift.

Thank you Lord for both my kids. And I pray Noel gets me something really cool in Boston. Amen.

OHHHHH!! Praise and Worship today at school: 8 songs. JESUS NEVER MENTIONED ONCE. Wanna see your glory songs? (Moses iow) 3x. It’s beyond ridiculous. I can’t understand it any more.

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